Great solution for my husband and myself. We are on well water and were buying tons of on gallon water bottles in plastic and we go through so much every week that this is a great temporary solution for us until we can get our kitchen built and put a system under our sink. The water taste great from this RO countertop carafe.
My experience with the Carafe model has been excellent so far. It does exactly what it says it does. I don't have scienmagific equipment that can tell you how well the remineralization filter works but the water tastes pretty good to me. I have seen people say it doesn't have a long life span, breaking after a year or two, but I would really like to know if they've been following the maintenance instructions. The Carafe comes with very clear maintenance instructions and I could see the machine malfunctioning if someone is too lazy to do them. You could definitely do a lot worse than this for a water purifier.