Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

THE GOOD: Easy for 2 people who have put together a lot of you-build-it furniture over the years to assemble and took about 90 minutes. The belt, motor, and critical mechanical parts appear to be well-made with quality materials. The display console doesn't quite have the same premium feel as the rest of the assembly, but on a machine at this price point I'd rather made tradeoffs there than the mechanical parts. iFit is a double-edge sword, with half of the experience falling in the "this is a total game changer" and the other half falling in the "this is an unacceptable trainwreck" category. When you manage to navigate your way through the impenetrable user experience to finally load the workout you were looking for it justifies the price -- the live video instructor-led workouts are phenomenal at this price point. THE BAD: You won't actually be able to find this stated anywhere online, but the treadmill has no outputs or bluetooth capability so you're forced to watch everything on the 10" screen (the S has bluetooth because it doesn't have a screen, but you lose bluetooth with the Si). The 10" screen is great if you don't have the ability to connect to a larger external monitor, but from the number of questions on this topic it's safe to assume that, like myself, many people want to output the video to a larger screen. Some of the more expensive Nordictracks apparently have this capability, and frankly had I known this I would have purchased a step-up model. It's fine if you don't want to offer this on the economy model, just make sure it's called-out (e.g. "video output through integrated screen only, no support for external monitors or TV"). You can't use headphones with iFit workouts and must use the integrated speakers. Non-starter if you're working out when others are sleeping or if you live in a smaller space and don't want to disturb others. Again, it's fine to not offer this, but it needs to be called-out (e.g. "audio output through integrated speakers only, no support for headphones") iFit in general: thousands of confused and angry users have said everything you can possibly say about the terrible iFit user experience: it's doesn't reflect professional commercial software standards for interaction design, lacking even such basic functions as search... it's true, there's no way to search the large library of iFit videos unless you pay some dude who scrapes the content another 30 bucks a year for access to his private database. The lack of search is just the tip of the iceberg though -- iFit is one of the most poorly-designed interactive experiences I've come across in the last few years, falling down at almost every step of the user journey. iFit people, if you're listening: the actual service you provide is stellar and the quality of the content is exceptional. You're shooting yourselves in both feet by ignoring basic usability, and this has been going on long enough that if you don't get serious about fixing it one of your competitors is going to eat your lunch and steal your users by doing the exact same thing you're doing but actually delivering an experience that works. You've already done the hard stuff, for crying out loud -- the work to get the experience out of the gutter isn't rocket science. Fix it.