Product review (2 stars): Quirky washer
This washer is pretty good for the price; I got mine at Home Depot for under $500.  Both it and the matching dryer are quirky, though, and you won't see that reflected in the carefully culled reviews posted on Home Depot's web site.  I'm accustomed to setting my washer and dryer to operate at bedtime and then waking up the next morning and folding the dry clothes and moving the washed clothes to the dryer.  However, in these appliances, they stay on until you manually turn them off, so they are still on in the morning--not a very energy-saving feature for an Energy Star appliance.  I didn't pay much attention to the fact that there is no console on top of these, but now that I have them installed in my very narrow little laundry room, that is a problem.  Every time you walk past them, they turn on because you're brushing the knobs.  If you lean down to put in or take out clothes, you inadvertently hit the knobs as well.  In addition, although there is a place in the pull-out detergent drawer for powdered or liquid detergent, fabric softener, and bleach, if you pour a granular product into the drawer from a box, it will be all over your floor because the drawer is narrow.  Instead, you need to carefully scoop it in.  I finally resorted to just throwing the powder into the machine, which I'm sure is not the best way to do it, but the powder never dissolves completely in the drawer anyway.

I would say that the washer does a pretty good job of getting the clothes clean, but I'm not in love with it.  For the money, it will do until I can get a better one.  If you can afford a nicer machine without all the quirks, I would say get it.  The delivery men that brought my washer said they don't sell too many of these (I can see why); they told me that most customers are buying LGs.  My sister has an LG and loves it, but of course, her dryer alone cost more than both my washer and dryer together.

If all you want is a machine to wash things in and you really don't care about the convenience of using it, you'll probably like it.  I like it a lot better than I like the matching dryer, which has a lot of issues.