The small footprint is exactly what I needed as I can store it away neatly in my VERY small kitchen.  It's well made, gets the dishes really clean, and is surprisingly quiet.  The regular cleaning cycles are long - and the quick cycle doesn't do as good a job as I had hoped so it would be nice to have something "in between".  Also, we actually ended up hooking it up to the guest bathroom sink as it WILL NOT work with the "all in one" sprayer type of kitchen faucet that are the most common today (my boyfriend is a contractor by trade and couldn't get it to work).  Overall, I'm really pleased with it as it does exactly what it's supposed to.