This coffee maker is great. Having the coffee grinder within the coffee maker makes it fast, and easy to grind our beans. As a result the coffee is stronger, and tastier.
Despite the many comments we have read  about how hard and time consuming the cleaning of this machine is, we did not find it to be the case at all, on the contrary.
The only negative thing is that the grinder is awfully loud. Souds like a jet plane.
Overall we are very satisfied with this coffee maker and would recommend it.