Product review (5 stars): I like it very much
I've been using this for just over 4 months, and i thought i'd give my opinion on it. I like it very much. I see now the listed price is about 25% below what i paid for it, damn. Not sure how that happened as it's a very nice unit, and was already priced a fair bit below the alternatives. With this new lower price maybe i should pick another up as a future replacement?
  This unit is very powerful. I know there are others listed that have even more powerful induction zones, but honestly even this thing is over powering when needed. I ran some boiling water tests with this unit against my old propane cooktop. I'll spare you the gory details but using the same pot with the same water level and the same starting water temps, on both cooktop's most powerful burners the induction was almost exactly 3 times as fast. My old propane burner was rated at 12000 btu. I know there are again more powerful propane burners out there, but they aren't powerful enough to close the gap to induction. Even if it scaled perfectly, and i doubt it does.
  This model is designed in such a way as to draw in cool fresh air and exhaust the warmer air(heated from within the unit by the electronics) towards the user just above the countertop. I think this is a good design. You can only slightly feel the air movement, but i doubt most people would notice. The built in timer is handy, never seem to have enough of those in a kitchen. If I had to come up with a gripe, it would be that you are only given a numerical system of 1-9+"P" for power settings. It would be cool if you could with the press of a button swap a burners controls out for an actual temperature setting. Sounds like an easy thing they could incorporate, but i don't know of any non commercial unit that will do that. Also, i wish the "p" setting, which is beyond "9" and for a limited time(how long i don't know, as "p" gets it done right NOW) was available all the time. You see when you press a burners individual power button to fire it up, you have either a down or up arrow. if you select the up arrow you will be taken to the "p" setting which is full throttle. but say things are just getting out of hand after a minute a "p",  and they might. that pasta water is boiling all over the place so you take it down to 9- 8. then after a bit you drop in 2lbs of pasta and the water temp drops. So you want to step on the gas to get it boiling again ASAP. Well, you can only arrow up to 9. to get to "p" again you have to press the power button and shut down the burner then restart is and select p again. it's weird but hardly a deal breaker.
 also, I take pots and pans off the burners while they are on all the time. the cooktop doesn't seem to care. it also doesn't seem to care that sometimes my pots and pans are to small to cover a burner. the cooktop doesn't get mad and time out on me.