RPM,
As much as you enjoy sorting out equipment choices, you might want to look in at the Coffee Geek and even the Home Barista forums.
Linda has one of those Cuisinarts with the built-in propellor grinder, so we can enjoy pour over coffee once in a while. Setting aside the issues swirling around the grinder, it's a decent machine which otherwise makes coffee about two clicks weaker than it would in any other machine. We compensate by mixing "Cafe Latina" style coffees (we actually use La Llave which is like Bustelo) with more "normal" American types. It makes a very economical and really delicious cup. Mixing the pre-ground with something like Chock Full O'Nuts is a really good way of feeding a personal size Mr. Coffee -- which makes working in an office bearable.
Those Bunns are a pretty good second best, I think. We were choosing between a Technovorm and a Bunn until Linda saw the Cuisinart in red and ON SALE. Oddly, she ended up buying a white one and paying [I can't say the word].
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