I like being able to only touch the lamp to turn it on and it increase the brightness.  The base was smaller than I though because I had purchased these once before at a store and the base was bigger.  However I liked the small size.  I changed the shades to smaller ones.  There is one problem with these type of lamps.  The touch stops working.  It goes on if you plug it in, but only to one brightness.  For it to work after loosing the touch feature, you have to plug it in and out until it all stops working.  It's hard to find nice touch lamps.  These are nice or you can make them nicer with a shade change, but they need to fix the flaw.