I work at cousins paintball lol.
It depends on what you want to play.
If you want to play woodsball and get dirty in the mud and water. Neither of those guns are for you lol. If you that is what you want to do, you should take a look at a tippman 98 custom. You can run the 98 over with a car and it will still work, or maybe if you want to shell out more cash buy the tippman a-5.
But if you want to play X-ball I dont think either of those guns is good, put out more cash to get an ion.
If you plan on getting more into it, an even better entry level gun is a smartparts ion, it costs like $200 now, has a nice board in it for stock, its light and has a great feel to it. I know because I have one
But you should know if you were to get an ion you would need a good hopper like a halo, or even an eggy to keep up with the gun, and you cant use a regular c02 tank because if you fire to fast the c02 will freeze the internals, so you would have to shell out a good 150bucks to get a decent nitro tank.
but if your just screwing around with friends in the woods the actuall xball fields I would go with a tippman a-5, very customizable very fun to mess around with w/ upgrades and can take a serious beating
Ill post of the one i got

Shot at 2007-08-20
I won it in a tournie, 3 man team, we came in 3rd place =\, the First place gun was a proto matrix wish I got 1first.
I threw on the Feed neck because the stock one is junk, and I threw on a small dropfoward because it was free lol, Some guy bought a new bigger one at my job and left that one lol
Theres also a blackheart in it. But to be honest I only bought it because I got pretty good work discount lol (blackheart is an upgrade board that makes the gun shoot faster)