where will you be skiing, (ie what mountain/reagion) and how many times a week/year? are you planing any trips or day where you will be skiing alot of pow? When I decide on skis I find out as much as I can before hand about as many skis as I can and then I figure out what I will be skiing mostly where I will bew skiing and how many days I will be skiing there come up with a points system with points being taken away for being to exspansive and other things, find out which ski scores higher and then throw it all away and go with which ever ski has the best graphics because honistly that is 90% of how you find a good ski, you do the skiing and it does the talking.