Product review (5 stars): A game changer. Please buy this!
I've lived in a few apartments without laundry hookups before, and tried not to let my weekly laundromat trips bother me as I didn't see any alternative. Many times, the apartments themselves (for the price, location, or other perks alone) were worthwhile to me and I didn't think it a big deal to head to a laundromat to wash clothes. I still don't necessarily hate those trips, but they do get exhausting, expensive, and are never something I look forward to doing. It takes hours, a lot of physical effort to carry laundry down stairs and to my car... let alone, when I lived in a city, I'd have to carry laundry baskets down busy, bustling blocks sans a car, and pay around $20 a trip.

This machine, then, pays for itself in just a few months' time for me. It takes much smaller loads than the commercial-sized units in laundromats, so that's a change I had to get used to. I can wash maybe 10 t-shirts at a time, or 5 t-shirts and a couple of pairs of pants. To me, this isn't a big deal because the fact that this is in my house makes it easy for me to do multiple loads a week.

The washer section has a higher capacity than the dryer section, as is easy to see in the photos. I find that doing very small loads in the dryer does help them dry more thoroughly, but you can rest assured that you will likely never have a bone dry piece of laundry out of this spin dryer. It gets pretty close to dry, and if you hang it out (outside or on a dryer rack) for a couple of hours, you're good to go.

Some things it washes better than others. I've had no problem with intimates, light-weight shirts, cotton pants, etc. But it does have some issues with heavy sweaters, jeans, and towels. Nothing too bad, just that it doesn't fit very many at once and that they can come out of the dryer rather stiff sometimes.

This thing, overall, has been such a lifesaver to me. At the price, I can't see rating it anything less than five stars. The instructions are clear. It requires maybe five minutes more "work" out of a person doing laundry than a regular machine, but I can't tell you how nice it is to be able to do laundry at home in a home I couldn't have before Panda.