I make smoothes and I struggled with doing bowls as I had to thin it out too much and it was soupy. This is great for acai bowls as I can use the special bowl to keep it thicker. It's more powerful than my other individual blender by 300W, though it does have a wider base. I like that it has different settings though and you can set mode and it will run a program and turn off, so you can do something else and not be watching it. The blades and cups are pretty easy to clean and rinse out.