We bought this microwave to replace a 15-year old competitors model that still worked fine, but we wanted to update to stainless to match the rest of the kitchen. It looks great and works as it should, but we have a couple of observations we feel potential buyers should be aware of.
1. It's very noisy when running, both the microwave itself and the exhaust fan, much noisier than our previous one, it is even noisier than the new Bosch dishwasher we purchased and installed at the same time.
2. The operator panel is not well thought out. The writing on the panel buttons is small and fine, to the point of being unreadable, especially by my wife who is a little on the short side and wears glasses. Additionally, when compared to the 15-year old microwave we removed the functions are less intuitive. In many instances it requires multiple button pushes to start a function that previously needed only 1.