I've owned my Cuisinart for a little over a year now and love it! I bought this one from Wayfair for my dad because it was a good price [...]. He uses it to make smoothies. The Cuisinart will puree frozen fruit like none other and the motor is powerful enough to make short work of ice cubes! I recommend it over any smoothie machine I've used mostly because the Cuisinart has so many other functions.