Having owned a small army of food processors in my life time- Cuisinart, 220V Magimix, and most recently a Breville, I was reticent to purchase "another" in my life time. But I went for the space saving plunge and have not regretted the decision. Yes the Vitamix attachment is smaller than the Breville (2l versus 2.8 litre capacity). Yes the VItamix has fewer blade gadgets, but I would argue that for pesto, hummus, onion chopping, coleslaw , parmesan grating the Vitamix does all those th...