Regardless of whether people still choose to buy from specialist stores, the warranty is pretty different to the standard of return to where you bought it, or send to a service centre at your cost. Just wondering if this is a one off, or if those with other Breville appliances have the same sort of warranty. Doode - I didn't think anyone could demo this right now, until production units start shipping. Did you get to try one of the pre-production models while they were out? Lacehim, I saw one at cafebiz, yes, they are big for this class of machine, bigger than I expected.