This coffee maker is just right. It makes good coffee, it is hot and stays hot in the carafe thermos, it doesn't leak like others I have had in the past, it's fast, and quiet. It is an 8 cup maker, which is four good sized mugs of coffee which is all I need. On occasion I make a second pot. I have only one minor complaint and that is the lid for the water reservoir flips open on the wrong side for me as I am right-handed. If it was hinged to open right to left or front to back, the lid wouldn't be in my way to pour in the water. But it's a minor thing and I work around it.