Product review (4 stars): Solid choice, few quibbles.
I wanted to wait and use the ice maker for a while before writing a review, as quite often things that start out great end up disappointing. I can now give a pretty solid endorsement. Aside from a couple of small quibbles (which I will get to) I am suitably impressed.
Our last countertop ice maker died peacefully in its' sleep after a long and chilling life.  It was a manual fill, manual empty model, and we had just gotten used to all of its faults (slow, poorly insulated; we manually emptied the ice into a bin in the freezer and kept an ice pick handy to break it all up...) After a couple of months buying bags of ice we decided it was time to look into a replacement.
To answer a few of the questions/complaints I have seen in other reviews:
*A user manual was included with  mine, but the instructions could have been better. I didn't have any trouble at all though.
*DO follow the advice to leave it on the counter with all the doors open for a couple of hours before using it
*DO plan on tossing out most of the ice made the first day you have it. (allow lots of fresh clean water to cycle through)
*I do wish it had a slightly larger capacity ice storage bin.
*I have not had any trouble with the dispenser being unable to dispense the ice because of it freezing together. It isn't the fastest dispenser I've seen, but it works fine
*The water supply line you need is "standard" for ice makers and many water filters: 1/4-inch OD, and uses a quick-fit (push in type) connector on the back of the machine. I also ran an inline water filter I picked up at home depot for a few bucks. (be sure to pre-flush the filter if you add one, the first bit of water run through new filters is usually black as it washes the carbon dust off...)
*The water is dispensed from the reservoir. For the occasional glass this is nice because it means the water is probably well chilled already (runoff from the ice making process and melt from the ice storage bin both go into the water reservoir) But this does mean it might be a bit slow to fill more than one or two glasses back to back.
*I do wish there were a way to adjust the volume, or mute the ding tones, but I haven't found them obnoxious and they don't wake me at night.

Overall, this ice machine does what I expect from it, and it does it without any trouble.