Others say...

"pretty content with it"
I have a few observations:
1. The cup size that they are referring to when they say 4-cup is actually pretty small. Think European-coffee size, not American-size.
2. I have absolutely no problem with that, except that it also takes a lot of coffee to get the proper strength for such a small cup. I actually prefer my coffee short and strong. The thing with this coffeemaker, though, is that you can only put so much coffee in the filter. It works fine if you're only making one tiny cup or two tiny cups (= one regular-sized strong cup) but if you want to make 4 tiny cups (= two regular-sized strong cups), you're going to need so much coffee to make it that it's almost going to spill over.
3. Thus, I find it alright to use to make just one cup of coffee in the morning of a satisfactory strength (somewhere halfway between the weakness of regular American coffee and the strength of coffee European-style). If you want to make it for two people, it can get problematic.
4. The clock and the timer work perfectly.
5. The coffee is hot enough in my opinion.
6. The coffeemaker arrives with no paper filters, so you would do well to buy a box of those at the same time, or better yet, to buy a permanent washable filter.

"Makes good coffee"
Good little coffee maker, better than some more expensive coffee makers I've tried. I sent this as a gift to a friend who doesn't drink coffee so I can have a cup when I visit! Silly? I know. Recommend, doesn't take much counter space, and great for small amount when a 12 cup is too much.

"Great Cofee Maker!"
This little guy works great. I love the timer - how cool it is to have coffee waiting for you when you get up in the morning!!

"Perfect for about 24 ozs of coffee"
The MR Coffee coffee maker (DRX5-4 cup) is perfect for me. I leave it in my office at work, so I can make my "one pot" of coffee a day. I typically buy a 24 oz coffee from the local convenience store everyday, so when I saw this "perfect amount" coffee maker, I had to get it.
I believe its paid for itself by saving me $1.85 per day, and I can buy whatever type coffee I want to use. Buying coffee at the grocery store (or even better, Sams or BJs) is the way to go!! Filters, cream and sugar packs are cheap there to.

Its fast, (about 4 min total) clean, (black looks good and doesn't show the coffee spills, like white). It can be programmed for future brewing in the AM and turns off automatically after an hour. I love the little clock.

I bought regular paper coffee filters (large) and trimmed them with scissors to make them smaller for the smaller filter holder. I did about 25 at a time and trimmed 1" off the larger filters. Easy!!!!!

And for under $20.00? No brainer!

"too small"
It's a cute little coffee maker and it works geat; but it's a little too small. I don't who measured this as a 4-cup but it's more like a
2-cup. I gave it to a teacher friend for her classroom and bought a larger coffee maker. If all you want is one cup of coffee it would be just the right size.