Product review (3 stars): First Portable Ice Maker I've Owned
Initial 4 star review about 30 days of use, 3 months in now a 3 star  ending.

Great little product, makes the medium size round cubes in 10mins. Good if you have no refrigerator ice maker. Nice with the stainless steel case and black front.

The prices of the better ice makers are 150 dollars up, I say they are pretty expensive but what are you gonna do other than buy those little plastic ice trays where the cubes start to stick to them and eventually the trays start to crack, then you throw em away, or buy a new fridge with a ice maker. This item is worth it if you can come up with the funds to purchase.

I use filtered water (ice tastes cleaner) to make about 8-9lbs. of ice in about 6-7 hours to stock in the freezer in a large one gallon ice cream bucket that lasts a family of 3 five days and I put ice in every glass of water/juice/soda I drink. If you're not picky like me and don't need ice in every drink the few pounds of ice will last much longer.

Some reviews mention ice tasting like plastic or something like that, if you do a prefill of the maker and leave the water standing in the ice maker for 20-30 minutes, drain, then wipe inside dry, and repeat once more it helps with that. However, it is new and you're going to get some taste from the plasic and metal parts that the water passes through until it is used a few times.

No need for the manufacturer recommended bleach and water prefill(I wouldn't do bleach, it would probably make the ice/maker taste/smell like bleach).

Update: July 21, 2012. 3 months of use and the pump failed, not the compressor but the pump that brings the water up into the compressor that makes the water up to freeze, also it didn't make any ice and the ice full light comes on.

I still say it is a good product until it failed in 3 months. Wish it lasted a few years, 2 years would've been nice.