I ended up replacing this machine afer only about a yearbecause the little grinder mechanism failed. While it worked,it did make good coffee, but it was a real pain to cleanit out every day to re-load the beans. I always had toclean it out in the morning and let it dry all day beforeputting in more beans so they didn't jam the little screenbetween the grinder and the filter. It's also prettywasteful of coffee since some of the grounds stay in thelittle grinder portion. It was a real pain to reload ifwe ever wanted to make more than one pot of coffee.Whenever the power went out, we had to reprogram the timeand all the little features. Also, since it's so messy, Ioften had to clean it out extensively and accidentallygot some water on the LCD display which then startedacting very flaky.Overall, it just isn't worth the expense andhassle compared to a simple $20 coffee maker with a timer.