Product review (5 stars): Absolute MUST HAVE if...
So you're fed up with the laundromat and you're thinking about (or have decided to) embark on the exciting adventure of compact appliance research. Here's a tip: if you are planning to get a portable washing machine, make sure there's room in your budget for one of these too.

Before I had a portable washer and compact dryer of my own, the neighbor across the way was nice enough to let me use her washer and outdoor clothes line (ok, so I used it without asking while she was out of town and I was watching her cats... she never pays me, so I helped myself to the machine). :) I discovered that day why I would never hang my clothes out to dry again, ever. My clothes were stiff enough to stand on their own, and as an extra bonus: little brown stains at every point where the clothespins had touched light colored fabric. All this plus it took forever and I had to skip a second load because it started to rain.

There are probably other options like having a constant draping of damp clothes spread on contraptions taking up precious space in my tiny apartment -- or maybe I could just wear damp clothes and hope they'd dry out by the time I get to work each day.

Call me lazy, a wimp, un-green, but none of this is gonna work for me. I need tumble drying. I also know that I need electric, vented drying because I happen to wear JEANS once in a while, and those ventless "evaporative" units aren't going to finish the job in under 12 hours, if ever.

This thing cooks, at least as well as you'd hope. Sure it takes about twice as long as a conventional dryer and sure I wish it held more, but I also wish I lived in a bigger place. Until that time, this machine is my bestest friend. (BTW: You really must avoid the temptation to over load this machine or everything will come out very, very wrinkled... load it half full or less and everything comes out soft, fluffy & relatively wrinkle-free)

Another note: there exists some confusion over whether or not this dryer needs to be vented. It does.  Airborne lint is flammable, deposits a frustrating layer of filth over everything in your house and doesn't add much generally to the pleasantries of breathing. The moisture also makes your small apartment swampy. Thus far my inelegant solution has been to purchase a small length of dryer hose and the Lambro #240T 4" Adjustable Window Plate. There must be a better solution out there somewhere.

Oh! AND: I feel that I should repeat what some other reviewer mentioned on one of these dryer pages: Get a washer like the Danby Twin that has a super high-speed spin dryer, or purchase a separate spin dryer; it makes all the difference in the world. Putting damp, slowly spun clothes in this dryer would probably not work well.