Product review (3 stars): Very good washer.  Not perfect.
First, the good news.  The Bosch Nexxt 500Plus washer is very quiet, saves energy and gets laundry very clean.  It does have a couple of shortcomings that are a frequent nuisance.  A digital display reads out a supposed time for completion of whatever wash cycle is in operation, but that readout sometimes does not accurately indicate time remaining.  Perhaps the biggest irritation with this washer is that you cannot use partial cycles.  For instance, you cannot wash something by hand and then use just use a spin cycle to get rid of excess water.  That was a much used feature on my old Whirlpool washers x2.
  We purchased the matching Nexxt 500Plus dryer at the time we bought the washer.  Both are much easier to access with the optional foot high pedestal/drawer unit.  The dryer does have a light in it, which is helpful.  The lift out lint screen/filter is easy to clean after every use.  It took me a while to realize that when I vacuumed the lint filter space I should just use a brush attachment and clean it from the front of the louvres rather than trying to get a tool into the space that the screen occupies.  That proved to be an exercise in futility.
  All in all, the washer/dryer set was a good choice although almost every week I wish I had the partial cycle feature on the washer and I must bring the vacuum down to the laundry room to clean the lint filter space about once a month.