Cuisinart DGB 600 BCU

Advantages: Quick, excellent tasting coffee- grinds and brews
Disadvantages: None really

If you like straightforward freshly brewed coffee then this is the machine to get. What it does - It grinds coffee beans and makes filter coffee from them. What it does not do - make "fancy coffee" - no steam, hot milk, froth etc. Good points - it makes the coffee quickly and without fuss. It can make just one or two cups or up to ten. It keeps the coffee warm in a vacuum jug. It is easy to wash. It needs no materials other than coffee and water. ...
...make coffee as it wakes you up. It produces wonderful smells, It works with both beans and ready ground coffee. The cold water holder is graduated so that you can see how much water you have added. Its attractive looking and the jug looks nice on its own. Not so good points. It does not have any method of heating the coffee after it has been made unlike many coffee makers. This means that the coffee will only stay hot for about an hour. Personally ... Read review

Advantages: Great freshly ground coffee and easy to use
Disadvantages: Expensive

I bought this machine in September. It has been a great coffee maker for us. We wake every morning using the timer to hear our coffee beans being ground and then the smell filters through our house. It has various settings and can be used with either beans or ground filter coffee. The timer makes it almost unique on the marketplace. It doesn't require any filter paper and is easy to clean. One downside is that mine just stopped working and I have ... Read review