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Strengths: Auto-cook and reheat functions, ability to program cooking routines, sound scheme choice.
Weaknesses: Annoying power-level setting scheme, sometimes tricky to figure out when the "auto" features will work.
Summary: Got this to replace an old unit whose rotating tray had finally given up the ghost, and took the advice of my brother and sis-in-law who had a slightly older but very similar
model.
This gets the job done, and usually quite easily. Sound shcemes can be adjusted (so that 2 a.m. burrito can be heated up without an 85dB beep at the end of the heating cycle), and a number of other options to customize presentatio and defaults do generally make use a snap.
The exception is the programming scheme: instead of hitting a "power level" button followed by a number key to give a % of power, on this model you HAVE to keep pressing the "power level" button as the power level then decreases by 10% with each push... Makes setting it to 30% for a manual thaw take 8 putton pushes just to get the power level right, which is a practical design nightmake in my book.
The auto-defrost function, however, works quite well. The warm-up does a good job so long as you have a fairly consistent-density food that produces steam and isn't totally covered (this microwave uses a steam sensor to guage its auto features). Aso, all other things equal, the auto reheat function will do a much better job getting a plate of food heated correctly than exactly the same food if it's in a bowl. It's easy to get used to, but it does seem like the steam sensor could have been better implemented if small changes in vessel shape can dramatically alter the auto-function's success. (Similar caveats apply to auto cook function, especially for frozen dinners).
A decent microwave overall -- one you've spent a day or two learning its quirks, its overall convenince level becomes really quite good.
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