This blender is great, Ninja is known for making pretty powerful blenders, and this doesn't disappoint. I've made hummus and smoothies with it, and they've all been super well blended. I think the blendsense is a bit of a gimmick as it seems to default to super powerful for everything, but it might work well if you have a blender full of things. Great that they have a manual mode if you don't want to deal with blendsense. Love the mince and chop options, though this is a full size blender so it really only works if you're doing a lot of chopping. The controls are surprisingly intuitive once you get used to them.