This is a good unit if you are planning to supplement your central AC to remove hot spot areas in your home. I purchased it for this reason and it meets my needs. I can see how some may think that it is noisy but this does not bother me as I was expecting this from a stand alone portable AC. Overall good unit for the price and service you get from wayfair. Only downside I experienced is how FedEx handles these fragile units that will cause these units to get damaged and fail, atleast my FedEx delivery guy did not handle this unit as a fragile piece so it was dead on arrival, however Wayfair has a excellent return process. I wish Wayfair would advise FedEx to handle these units more carefully.