I bought this machine yesterday and have had a good play with it. Setting up the machine was fairly quick and easy, but you do really need to read the manual. All in all it took about 15 minutes to get it ready to use, then coffee at the press of a button. The taste of the coffee was good and it had a reasonable crème which seemed to get better over the next few cups. As for speed, the machine it reasonable. Start to finish, it takes a fraction under 2 minutes to make a cappuccino.However, the steamed milk option, for making cappuccino / latte, rather less satisfactory. While it makes a good, stable, froth, it's far from hot enough, making the resulting drink barely more then tepid. Unlike the coffee temperature, the milk temperature cannot be controlled. The manual suggests that, for a hotter drink, you should preheat the cup and preheat the machine with a rinse of hot water. I took that one step further by flushing the milk unit with a press of the clean button to preheat that, but still the result was far from satisfactory. Even with the coffee temperature set at hot, preheating everything in sight, and starting with milk at 15 degrees rather than the recommended 5, the milk only attained 56 degrees and the final coffee just 61 degrees: nothing like hot enough for my taste. It's not possible to get the machine to produce just steam, so boosting the milk temperature that way's not an option. I went back to the microwave method!The water capacity is disappointing, but it does just last a day (though that will obviously depend on the number and volume of coffees produced). The milk and bean capacities are slightly better and the drip try and used grounds trays are ample. I didn't use the hot water dispensing facility, except try it. It works, but gave a very low flow rate.The look and feel of the machine it okay, though the control knob on the front feels disappointingly cheap, clunky and nasty. The two-line front panel display is readable, but could be better. It's hardly state of the art.On bal

this is a compact nice to use machinehowever we found that the milk was not hot enough for our liking.