Water reservoir is in the back so you have to lift it over the coffee maker. Makes a minimum of 6 cups of coffee which isnt always ideal. Its fine. Not great not bad.
I had purchased the previous DUO model and it was dead out of the box, very disappointing. When I saw this model on sale, I figured that I should try again. So far I am very pleased with this unit. The features are great, they give me much more control over my brewing.