Impressa C5 looks like a nice alternative to the more expensive models. I was looking at ENA 3 which is the same price. Is the C5 a better machine?
Good question. The machine is to arrive on 1/18/2010 but we just got bits and pieces of info and specs on it. Detailed info on the Impressa C5 will be available later this month. From our comparison of other models and the known specs of the C5 it looks like it is almost identical to the Impressa J5 and pretty close to ENA 3 but with more programming options. It is quipped with dual frother but not frothXpress (automatic frother) like J5, so if you don't care about the automatic frother it seems like the best choice (given price and functionality). I could safely say that it is better than the ENA 3 (which doesn't have automatic frother either).