The Meindl Perfekt is a mountain boot. It's made for stony pathes and can be used with spikes under it to walk over ice.
The Meindl Badile is made for hill hiking. Should you get on stony ways they will be OK for an hour, but they aren't the first choice for ways like that.
They aren't made for spikes and glaciers. They are made for good dry or whet ways in the mountains, and they are mainly made for hills and flat countries all over the year.
They are a bit cheaper than the Perfekt, but they are made in a classic way with a sole every shoemaker master in Europe can change easily within 24 hours, what is important, if you should get a problem in your holidays somewhere.
The inner side of the tongue of the badile has a plastic fabrik. (The Perfekt is made only with leather and thread and the attached Vibram rubber sole.)
The tongue isn't folded out of the main leather, but it is attached in a way, that allows melt and rain water to float down instead of floating inside the boot, how it will happen with 90% of the normal hiking shoes you will find in normal shops.
Here you can see the well made Meindl Badile:
The leather which attaches the tongue in a very water tight way -- of course less water tight than the folded Meindl Perfekt -- is relatively thin. That will last perhaps 15 years, if you pay attention, that you clean sand away from the laces.
Earlier or later you will get holes in this leather where it touches the laces, but that can be repaired or you wear the boots out with a new sole another 5 to 10 years in dry weather or as a winter boot in the town.
The leather of the Meindl Perfekt is 3 times thicker there. He doesn't get holes from the laces.
The Badile is far lighter than the Perfekt. If you don't need such a strong boot, because you walk mainly on good ways and mainly in flat country you can walk more kilometres per day before you get tired legs, especially if you should be a weak guy.
If you should be strong, sporty and often in real mountains on stony ways the Perfekt is the better choice. Your feet will not become tired as soon as in the light badile if you are walking the whole day over stony ways.
Better tired legs than tired feed. Because tired feed can break easily, tired legs just ask for an intermission or to end the walk for today.
Yes, you understood right:
A strong guy can buy only the Meindl perfekt and use it every where the next 20 to 35 years.
A weak guy should buy both. He should use the Perfect in the mountains and the Badile in flat country. No problem, the guy is weak, because he works in an office where he earns enough money to buy both.
A very weak guy should buy only the Badile and stay in flat country, light hills and with a light rucksack in the mountains in the summer on good ways. He has nothing to do on glaciers and stony and rocky mountain pathes. So long he is so weak heavy terrain is to dangerous for him.
Meindl offers as shoe in between the both models. I forgot the Name. Looks in between, weights in between, costs in between. Made for use in terrain in between.
I think it is called Dachstein, or like that.
Steinkogler, Hanwag, Völkl and Trabert produce a couple of similar offers in similar qualities for similar prices. They should look like the boots I showed here. The way they are made in Austria and Germany is called"Zwiegenäht", what means "double stiched".
YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT I TRIED TO EXPLAIN. BUT IN THE END YOU MUST BUY THE BOOT WHICH FITS THE MOST COMFORTABLE TO YOUR FEED !!!
DIFFERENT SHOES FOLLOW DIFFERENT CUTS BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE A DIFFERENT ANATOMIE. THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT IF YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE A PAIR OF BOOTS.