Product review (4 stars): Good washer/easy to live with
I looked at the reviews on Amazon; people either love or hate this washer, and now I think I know why. If you load it according to the instructions, it works beautifully. It's just as I suspected: The people who hate it, are, I think, loading it wrong or overloading it. Even when I load it properly--which doesn't SEEM to be as many clothes as my old washer would take--I find that I'm actually getting more clothes into it than I got into my old "super-capacity" washer. It's just that you have to load it so that there's some room left down the center.

Also, the other reviews talk about clothes getting all twisted together, ripping buttons off, etc. Same thing: they must be loading it wrong/overloading. Not a single problem here.

It sounds different, but I got used to that in a day. And my Arm&Hammer detergent is good for it. The heavy settings take a little longer to wash than my old one, but the light settings are actually quicker. Which is all meaningless to me. I don't sit around and wait for it to finish anyway.

Oh, yes: it's very important that it be leveled properly: not just sit without rocking, level. But I've always done that with washers anyway. It has a hyper-speed spin setting that needs a level washer; but for most wash modes you can turn the hyper-speed down to regular speed anyway, and it doesn't seem to make much difference in how well it spins out the water.

Drawbacks are that it still shakes a little at the hyper-speed spin setting, though it doesn't "walk" at all; and the "your load's done" beeps at the end can't be turned off. The annoying beeps when you press the setting-buttons can be turned off, but the beeps at the end can't. (The saving grace is that they're not very loud. I just don't like being nagged.) Also you have to load a little more carefully and evenly; you can't just dump stuff in.