Product review (3 stars): Not bad, but feels more like a "Beta" design
First off, I am a long time Amazon purchaser of many product, but I purchased this icemaker at Target a few years ago as an impulse item. I saw that it was typically made for college students for their dorms. I initially wasn't in the market for an icemaker, but when I saw it at Target, I felt that it might be nice to have an icemaker on my large family-size back porch with a yard pool near by. We we practically live on the back porch during Summer, and I thought it might be nice to reduce people from going inside of my home whenever they needed more ice for their drinks. My family (myself, wife, kids, grandkids) also go to the beach about once a year, and because it is sort of portable, we take this with us because the refrigerator's icemaker tends to run out of ice.

The positives:
1. Fairly portable.
2. It does crank out ice fairly quickly (a small batch roughly about every 10 minutes)

The negatives:
1. If kept outside, the outside of the icemaker can sweat terribly during humid periods, and any condensation (and dirt) on the top can pour into the inside clean water reservoir.
2. The inside "water filter" does a extremely basic job, and if Emerson was going to go with this type of filtering system, it probably should have been much larger, *AND* the water from the ice tray run-off during the water fill-up shouldn't ever be allowed to pour into the clean water reservoir. Actually, I feel that any water filter should be before any water ever reaches the ice tray, instead of after it. I feel this might help prevent any small particles from reaching the water pump.
3. The ice maker has three primary sensors; water level low, ice full, and ice jam-up. Besides the poor design of the water filter (above), I feel the semi-constant jamming-up of ice is one of the weakest aspects of this icemaker. The basket should have ever been deeper, or the ice full sensor should have been tweaked for slightly less ice. Typically, the basket will fill up to the inside revolving ice tray and then a piece of ice will get jammed. Once any ice gets jammed, then ice maker will no longer make anymore ice. This jamming feature is good, but not if you have to constantly manually reset the unit. I can reasonably expect a period or two to where jamming might happen, so this shows me a strong issue with the basket depth, or the ice full sensor.
4. There are periods to where you will need to clean out the water reservoir for various reasons, but it isn't the easiest thing to clean or to clean out. I would have put more of a slope towards the daring, and I would have designed the bottom with more rounded interior edges.

Overall, it's not too bad as a cheap icemaker, but you get a sense that this could have been designed by freshmen engineers that are in training. I feel that it might have been tested in a controlled environment, but if they had tested this in the real world for about a year by a select group of consumers, many of the design flaws may have presented themselves.