The best one can say about this Krups is that it makes coffee. Whether the coffee is "worse" or "better" than other brands probably depends more on the coffee than on the coffee making machine. For anyone accustomed to, or a fan of, good user-griendly modern design this Krups is poor. As the Krups' designersmoved from the good old "analog", i.e. physical, controls, to "software" controls (i.e. " first push button A then button B for 3 seconds, etc.", thethe usability plummeted. It's ridiculous that the customer has to continually go back and consult the (good old analog) paper manual to remind ones selfwhat buttons to press when. Finally, there is nothing graceful about the object itself; It is a big, chunky, squarey, black-and-stainless steel, lump.I am comparing it to the previous graceful Krups slim, curvy, graceful, mostly white designs.