Using a hole saw and cutting into metal, I'm pretty sure I could spend 8 minutes per hole. Of course I prefer to use the drill press for this, but some project

Using a hole saw and cutting into metal, I'm pretty sure I could spend 8 minutes per hole. Of course I prefer to use the drill press for this, but some projects can't fit and must be done with a hand drill. Then there's the grit wheel or flap disc, which might have me axially loading the drill for 30 minutes at a time (such as for stripping paint or sanding rust off an iron engine block). I think they must be including a lot of people who buy or receive a drill as a gift and never use it at all, to get to 8 minutes average. I do find it believable that the cheaper ones might have a design life of 8 minutes, but that's a sad state of affairs.