Product review (5 stars): This is a great microwave
We've had this microwave for about 9 months, and use it regularly. It says 36", but that's a bit deceiving, this is a 30" microwave put into a 36" form factor. There is 3" of matching white metal flanking each side of this unit from the front, underneath is a 36" metal piece that is contiguous, though only 30" of the area under this unit has functional vents or lighting.

It operates well, is quiet as a microwave, not quite so quiet as a ventilation hood. Power is very good, lighting is great, I particularly like being able to set a night light feature. The night light feature lets me select a time to turn the low intensity light on and off.

When cooking, it's just a normal 1100 watt microwave, if things spill, the interior is easier to clean than many similar units. The walls and ceiling seem to be designed for spills. It's slightly dicier abound the floor, but this is an easy to clean microwave. The interior lighting is very good and allows easy viewing of whatever is inside.

There are many intuitive buttons, which have a reasonably well thought out layout. Once you get used to it, this is an easy to operate unit.

In terms of cons, the biggest is noise from the ventilation unit, coupled with maybe relative weakness of the unit. Even at low speed, this is not very quiet. The second and last con (to me) is the halogen lights. I wish it had come with LED lights. The halogen lights do have 2 intensity modes, one for regular lighting and one for night light. Eventually, I'll find a way to install LED lights into the unit.

Overall, if you have a 36" space, and want / need an over the range microwave, this is a very affordable solution. The biggest con is noise from the unit. If you have a very high BTU cook top, the air flow may also be an issue. Our burners are not super powerful, if they were, we'd likely need a unit with better ability to move air. Fortunately most of our ventilation is used when running a self clean cycle on our oven (to avoid setting off smoke detectors), when self cleaning occurs we aren't often at the range. So the noise doesn't bother us, suction is sufficient to pull the air out of the room and not set off any smoke detector.