This blender makes the best smoothies with minimal effort.  Just fill the container with the ingredients, move the dial to the smoothie setting and the blender does the rest.  Uses just the right speed and sequence of variating the speed to mix the ingredients to a smooth texture.  Seeds in berries are ground to a smooth texture.  when done fill with warm water and a "drop" of detergent and set the dial to cleaning speed and the pulsating action cleans the container and blades.