You must be careful watching YouTube videos and reading reviews, especially those who favor the Breville product line. They pay actors to play parts (chefs, dieter clubs and "professionals"). However, from such a video, I did learn the four elements to a GREAT blender, and this one has all of them:
-Metal to Metal contact motor parts, not plastic.
-More than 700 watts in the motor
-A large base in a GLASS carafe
-A large blade which covers most of the bottom
This unit has all these things and is half the price of the Breville, a quarter of the price of a Vitamix. [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]