Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads. 2,186 posts, read 5,289,568 times When first looking at this Blender, it looks fantastic. That is what first made me decide to purchase this one; it looked like it had such a large range of options and having the settings each with their own button on the front, looked easy to use. The base is quite heavy, a lot heavier then other blenders. But it has a lot of power when in use, it is 700 Watts. The LCD screen is handy as it shows how long it has been blending on that particular setting. So it's good when blending something that has to be blended for a pretty exact amount of time. It also has a timer setting so you can just leave it to blend for a certain amount of time. It works excellent with ice.