I gave this a five star because of the way it was built smaller more compact machine then the original Ninja and does just the same amount if not more there is a tremendous amount of coffee combinations the one thing that I would suggest is that ninja should have put in their Ninja coffee book it would give a lot of people more insight into the products that could be handled with the machine it is a well-built machine my first cup of coffee was great tasting I do like my coffee and I think ninja came up with a product that surpasses my expectations I would recommend this product to someone who is a coffee drinker Go Ninja