Product review (5 stars): Lovin my Panda
I'm using it as I type this. This little machine is truly wonderful for me. I recently moved from a house with washer & dryer to a tiny one bedroom apartment, so after "rediscovering" the wonders of a laundromat 3 blocks away & also getting to play "guess what the people before me put in these same machines", I knew I needed to find something else. Now, the washing is wonderful, detergent use is minimal & I have found that my clothes are indeed much cleaner. Yes, it's not automatic & yes, as others said, you do have to add water and such, but I am doing my laundry at home, in my own machine.

The dryer is sort of different as it is spin only and no heat, so while clothes, if you do do smaller loads, come out about 80% or more dry  you still need to hang them for a few hours. And yes, I have now had to reeducate myself on how to iron again :(  as without a heated tumble dryer my clothes do come out wrinkled, but again, I'm not schlepping my laundry to the mat and all that. All in all a very worthwhile investment and one that I am not regretting. This may not be for everyone but for those of you that don't mind a bit of hands on and want to save trips out this may be the answer.