This thing does a nice job of brewing, and I love the fact that it can be very easily disassembled for washing, and then just as easily reassembled. The water filter feature seems a little gimmicky to me (we don’t even use it, as we’re already using filtered water to make our coffee). The carafe, even when completely full, doesn’t drip at all when pouring, which is a huge improvement over some others we’ve had. The reusable grounds basket it also nice, though we have started grinding more coursely to minimize small grounds from making their way through the mesh of the basket.