Product review (5 stars): Nice dishwasher
I didn't purchase this dishwasher on Amazon; I bought it elsewhere. Hopefully that doesn't discount my review at all.

That said, we're really happy with our dishwasher. We did all of the research on Consumer Reports and read all of the consumer reviews from retail places like Amazon and Best Buy. The best thing to do is to just find one with the features you want and hope for the best. That's what we did and it worked out nicely. The consumer reviews are pretty polarizing: "1 star this thing is terrible and noisy!" or "5 star awesome unit!" Rarely do people actually go into good detail with it (except with KitchenAid's and their broken racks).

That said, here's why we bought ours. It has a self cleaning food grinder. We plan on renting our place out rather than selling after we leave, so things like a food disposal are more tenant friendly. None of the Euro brands have a food disposal so keep that in mind when your friends brag about how quiet their unit is. It means that they have to clean a waste filter by hand. No thanks.

This dishwasher also has nice features like steam clean, heated water, sanitizing confirmation, etc. Our water is already pretty hot so the only one we use on a regular basis is sanitize. I'd say it works really well, but honestly I have no idea if it's working. Steam clean works, but we rarely use it unless we're lazy (or tipsy) when doing the dishes. Overall it's quiet so that's a nice plus. The water pump in this unit is really good and that's honestly the loudest thing in the cycle. Not the pump itself, but the sound of the water dumping into your disposal or p-trap. Nothing GE can do about that though.

The blower for the top rack is nice and gets all the glasses completely dry. The only exception is plastic cups. Nothing gets plastic cups dry.

Overall, a nice dishwasher that we'd recommend.