My Vitamix S30 was a gift from my daughter &SiL. I had so admired theirs.The smaller S30 is perfect for One Person. I use it every day to make a smoothy of raw vegetables and fruit, so I can keep up with the new Canada Food Guide. I haven't found anything it will not render SMOOTH unlike all the others I have tried over the years (and I'm 73 so that's a lot of years!).

I bought my Vitamix because I wanted to be able to make green smoothies. You put spinach in a blender with ice, milk, fruit, and protein powder and it makes a delicious beverage. Other blenders work on most things, but with the Vitamix everything comes out nice and smooth, with nothing floating on the top. Also the moving parts are all steel, while other blenders use plastic for the moving parts, so they burn up.

This blender has been a headache. It doesn't matter how much fluid I use or if I fill a few inches or to the max line it still takes me close to 20 minutes to make a simple smoothie. Forget about almond or cashew butter, you will be at it for hours. It simply shuts off then I have to unplug and wait, plug it in and try, unplug and wait more time until it decides its ready to resume blending my simple fruits and liquid. So disappointed in this blender, I wish I would have saved my money.