My reccomendations:
If you want a single stage press that will handle anything that you can throw at it for pistol or rifle reloading: Lee Classic Cast press- they run around $75. RCBS, Lyman, and Redding offer pretty much the same press with the same features for 2-3x the price.
Turret: Lee classic cast turret. Its a very strong press based on the Lee Classic Cast press. It has auto-indexing so that you can reloadd in a semi-automated fashion unlike other turret presses that are pretty much a single stage press that holds several dies.
It's not particularly strong, plus it adds the additional "slop" of a revolving head. It's only advantage is it's a little bit faster...but very little.
I completely disagree about this other than the standard 'old' Lee turret press wasn't the strongest and isn't the best for rifle reloading. Reloading with an auto-indexing turret is very fast- I can and have reloaded 100 rds of 30-06 in an hour- and these were cast loads where there is an extra case mouth belling step and extra care has to be taken with handling the bullets.
The 'slop' is not an issue if the dies are set correctly. If you set the dies up so that all of the 'slop' is taken up at the top of the upstroke, everything will be perfectly aligned- there is an advantage to this as unless you use a perfectly machined die set up perfectly square to your ram, something is going to be forced out of alignment in a rigid setup. People curse Lee for using their O-ring lock rings and 'sloppy' turrets, but they serve a purpose towards self alignment of the tools as a case is pushed into a die and just as importantly as its pulled back out. The only big improvements that can be made is to throw away the spring clip that retains theshell holder and replace that with a o-ring, and place an o-ring under the expander ball locknut on a resizing die- which I do both on my sizing dies and presses.