After a couple of moves, I lost my mixers. I'm in a tiny kitchen so when I saw this mixer had its own storage for just the space of the mixer, I had to try it. When it arrived, I was pleasantly shocked at the sturdiness of the container and it had full size heavy beaters, whip, and dough hooks. When we plugged it in to test the strength of the mixer itself, it took right off, on low it was quiet. Moving up to the highest setting, there was some noise, but nothing unusual. My other mixers (a kitchen aide and a black and decker) make the same noise on the highest setting if not worse!
I was also very impressed with the weight of it, heavy enough for the bigger jobs, but light enough that you don't mind pulling out every day.
Putting it all back into the self-container the first time was comical. However, after working with it, placing and replacing the attachments, we finally got the lid attached.
Then we tried to open it up and just get the machine and the attachments desired. Violá! We had done it.
Now it sits on my shelf, taking up only the room of the machine. Every thing neat, tidy, and close at hand. .
What a cool gift this would be for Valentine's Day, Mother's Day,birthdays, for anybody that likes to bake or whip up eggs this would be a perfect gift. Highly recommended!