I have an idea this was not quite fair. No way the hp requirements of that cut exceeded the hp of the machine. My 15 hp fadal could do that cut. Proly a 5 hp machine could. Ahm no 'spert, but vmc's have a way of detecting a crash condition, and it looks like that's what was happening here. If he came in at, say, 60 ipm, and then *ramped up to 120 ipm*, I'll bet good bucks that the Haas would not have alarmed out.
If this is the case, one could arger that the Haas was a *safer* machine, and that you just have to work around this a bit, from a production pov, but once worked around, will still have better "crash protection".
I don't think anyone, not even Haas, would debate that the makino is a "better" machine. It all boils down what you actually require, and bang-fer-yer-buck.
Also, I don't think ramping up is such a bad idea, anyway, altho mebbe unnecessary once a program has been proved out, for full production.