UPDATE: 6-25-2013 Now three years after buying this Microwave oven it is still going strong. Almost every weekend I buy Chinese Food, Pepper Steak, Shrimp Fried Rice and more for my brother and I.  The food never arrives hot enough for our tastes so we zap it with microwaves till piping hot!  We use this microwave to heat water for tea, coffee and more.  We defrost meat and use this Microwave often and it has just be a pure workhorse.  I did not spend much to purchase this microwave and it has more than delivered performance for the price I paid.  This microwave has out lived a Frigidaire Affinity Front Load Washer, Home Depot Florescent Light Fixtures (Cheap Ballasts)!  For me this Panasonic Microwave has paid for it self in use and dependibility.