GE Appliances is not being "auctioned off". The idea that a business will be sold for billions of dollars and promptly disappear escapes logic. If you like a particular product buy it.

Businesses don't have to be sold to see "orphan products" show up a few years down the road. Today the appliance design life cycle is around five years thanks to cheap design, energy saving regs, expensive to the consumer electronic circuit board changeouts, and generally poor after sale service.

I believe that Frigidaire and Kenmore have a similar range to what you are describing. Oh and I too would be rethink a GE appliance right now.

stretchad, what did you end up getting? I keep being drawn to that exact GE model.

I have a PGB910SEMISS, which is very much the same range with a few features a bit different. I have had it for nearly a year and can say that it has been flawless and has lived up to my expectations 100%, which I can honestly say was very high to begin with.

BTW, the GE appliances div. is not being "auctioned" but will probably evolve or spin off into a separate entity in the future. I can't see why anyone would automatically assume that such as fact protends to be purely negative. Change can just as likely be good (as BHO claims). Would you not consider a Jeep or Chrysler now because of the recent change in that corporate structure?

I say go buy it! You will love it!

Um, no, I wouldn't consider a Jeep or a Chrysler just basically :)

But back on topic! thanks for the feedback on the 910. I wonder if there's a slide-in that is like that one. We have a slide-in and I'm willing to go to freestanding if there are other good tradeoffs. May I ask: do you ever burn your hand or get it hot by trying to adjust the knobs behind where you have things cooking? That's what I keep seeing happen if I use a freestanding. Sounds dumb, I know...but I'd love to hear that I'm thinking too much...