Product review (5 stars): Excellent function, Much better than expected; Zero reliability problems in 14 mo of frequent use
We received and installed this unit 09/11/2008, after several weeks of careful research of multiple brands, models and features on the internet.

This unit was a replacement for a Thermador stainless "steam machine" dishwasher, purchased new and used, by both us and renters, since 1980, though with 2 motor replacements. Both Themador motor replacements were performed personally (much lower cost), due to failure of the upper motor shaft seals letting soapy water get out of the wash chamber into the motor.

We have been impressed with how extremely quite the Bosch unit is, much quieter than the high-end Thermador 1980's vintage machine; the Bosch unit is actually somewhat difficult to hear running most of the time, in a quite house, and my hearing remains quite good by audiometry.

It does an excellent wash job; with rinse agent of course.

Because the unit does not use extra heat (and energy) to dry the dishes, it does not warp plastic cups, utensils, etc. like most dishwashers do. On the other hand, because plastic items do not retain much heat, they also do not dry in locations which retain water; a minimal nuisance; just be sure plastic items are in position to gravity drain - of course this applies to all items.

Additionally, because the unit does not use extra heat to dry the dishes, it does not pour out lots of humid air into either the cabinet space or the kitchen like most dishwashers do.

The easy pull out and separable utensil baskets can be placed anywhere on the bottom shelf. This, combined with multiple other both flexible and durable lower and upper rack features, has made this the easiest dishwasher to pack with items which we have seen.

Given the extremely quiet operation, the door status display with states current operation and time until complete has been quite helpful.

Given the very low energy and water usage, plus low noise level, we don't mind running it less than fully packed on occasion if waiting for a full load is inconvenient.

Though we expected to utilize the delay start feature, as we did with the 1980 Thermador unit we replaced with this one, we have ended up not using delay start feature, largely because the unit is so quite.

Addendum: Over two years later:

The unit continues to work well, no service problems.

We had a lot of Cascade powder, used until we finally ran out about a month ago. We noted that Bosch specifically recommends tablets, not powdered detergents, and one obvious problem we noticed with the powders, perhaps more-so over time, was streaks of powder in some place and on some dishes, obviously representing problems with the powder not dissolving before being adequately rinsed away.

Since finally running out of powder and switching to the tablets, the powder streaks are no longer present.

The older powders clearly etched clear glasses, producing a hazy which would could not remove. Only clear glass items make this evident.

The newer tablets claim to not have the etching problem, at least not to the same degrees. I cannot comment until or unless we get some new clear glasses for comparison.