Product review (4 stars): Consumes so few resources.
This review is for those who are accustomed to seeing your washer fill up with water, agitate, drain, spin and repeat.  This front-loader does more of a tumble, tumble, drain and spin but the big surprise is how little water it uses.

Your laundry will be soaked, but there is no extra water sloshing around in the tub.  Just wet laundry being tumbled, making you think that it cannot be working.  However, we have discovered that our clothes come out looking and smelling great, the towel setting produces great results, and we are pleased.  The only negative is that we usually do an extra rinse to make sure the soap is out, but that is more a personal preference.

A big positive is that the machine spins so much water out of our laundry that our old dryer runs for a little less than half the time it did before.  This translates into big electricity savings for us.  We are also enjoying the fact that we can wash 12 pairs of jeans and jean shorts in a single load, maybe an hour or so, and then dry them in 20 minutes.  This machine is easy to use.

I take away a star because I think it does a good job, and I reserve the extra star for products that are spectacular.

10/3/2013  As a follow-up, we've been using this machine for several months now, and still like it.  Points of interest:  It has not broken.  It has a lot of buttons and lights and does a lot of work, so i won't be surprised when it does, but so far no problems.  We've never seen a sock get stuck, never seen it leak, none of those things.  It does have very sesitive controls.  If you lean against the machine, or sometimes throw a towel on the machine it can touch the power button and stop the machine in mid-cycle.  Also, we run the "Clean" cycle less than is recommended by the soap-selling manufacturer and still have never once smelled mold or mildew or anything except soap - a pleasant surprise.