Help me choose between these two 18650 lights

[Fallingwater]

I want a light for household use. It'll maybe see some outdoor use, but it'll mainly be indoor. So I have no use for a super-bright light with a tight hot spot; rather, I need a decent amount of spill.
It has to be 18650 because I have some old but still functional 18650 cells out of a laptop battery pack that I'd hate to leave unused.

So I checked DX, and came up with this one and this one.
The first is the so-called "U2-style", it's apparently brighter on high output (driving the LED at 1200mah instead of 900 like the other one does) and well built.
The second one is a bit smaller, costs less and seems to have better regulation (according to the graphs).
Since I foresee the light will spend most of its life in low-power mode the slightly higher brightness of the U2-style isn't a decisive advantage. Along with the lower price I'd be inclined to choose the other one... if it wasn't for the never-hated-enough SOS and Strobe modes, which I find completely useless and which always get in the way.

So: a slightly better light with a useless feature I'll always bump against, or a slightly lower-quality two-mode one?

 

[Fallingwater]

Bump

 

[thefish]

I would also like to know the answer to this, I am strongly leaning toward the 5 mode light... may I also suggest the http://dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.2508~r.10503991 a bit more money but it has a clip which can be very usefull at times I find.

 

[bspofford]

I want a light for household use. It'll maybe see some outdoor use, but it'll mainly be indoor. So I have no use for a super-bright light with a tight hot spot; rather, I need a decent amount of spill.
It has to be 18650 because I have some old but still functional 18650 cells out of a laptop battery pack that I'd hate to leave unused.

So I checked DX, and came up with this one and this one.
The first is the so-called "U2-style", it's apparently brighter on high output (driving the LED at 1200mah instead of 900 like the other one does) and well built.
The second one is a bit smaller, costs less and seems to have better regulation (according to the graphs).
Since I foresee the light will spend most of its life in low-power mode the slightly higher brightness of the U2-style isn't a decisive advantage. Along with the lower price I'd be inclined to choose the other one... if it wasn't for the never-hated-enough SOS and Strobe modes, which I find completely useless and which always get in the way.

So: a slightly better light with a useless feature I'll always bump against, or a slightly lower-quality two-mode one?

I would say that the U2 style is the higher quality light, and I can't imagine that you would ever regret buying it. Indoors you would probably use the low setting, and outdoors you would use the high setting.

 

[Fallingwater]

I think I'll go for the U2-style one.
Strobe and SOS I'd never use, and I've never liked medium modes in anything, so I'd just end up clicking a lot to alternate between low and high modes... and since the U2-style only has those two I'll be clicking a lot less.

Edit: ordered the U2-style light (along with a 10-pack of generic 1-watt Luxeon knockoffs just for kicks). Let's see if I can restrain myself and not order any more lights for a few months...