Got his as a gift to replace our *other* blender that someone broke... Anyway, this was definitely an upgrade. I'm pretty sure you could blend diamonds in this thing if you wanted to. It's never had any trouble taking whatever we throw in it. All and...

This is a great blender, we love the glass jar.  We use it mostly for smoothies, it chops the ice very finely.  Its very easy to wash, again the glass jar cleans right up in the dishwasher, much better than our old blender that had a plastic jar.