Thinking about buying a jointer-recommendations?

[GoodVictor 0]

I am getting deeper and deeper into woodworking and my friend says I should get a jointer since we want to be building laminated boards and such. So I'm thinking I should go with an 8" jointer, I want to figure out if I should get a parallelogram (sp?) style one or would a Laguna Shear Tech II with the 'wedge bed' be good? I want to keep the budget under 2K if that's reasonable, the Laguna's seem to jump up to 3K if I get their 8" parallelogram models. I think I can get a Grizzly for around 1500 that is similar, just don't know if it's a good tool or not?
 

[Brandcalfe 2]

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