Big and loud. Lousy reliability.

I also make smoothies with frozen fruit, milk and yogurt but my 20 year old blender was not working so well and I thought that this would do the trick - which is to actually chop up all the fruit leaving no chunks.

To be honest I cannot tell the difference in the blending. There are more plastic parts than I would imagine from Viking, and reliability is therefore lousy.

On the other hand, it's very tall, only barely fits under our cabinets. And it's loud - my wife leaves the room when I turn it on. And for all that, it has no more capacity than all the rest.

This blender was rated very well in Real Simple - I'd stick with Consumer Reports for ratings in the future. (They didn't rate this one, but I bet I would have been happier, but $50 richer, had I followed their recommendations.)

3 months after I bought this, the plastic drive gear was shot. I threw it away, not worth following up on the warranty.