I have the Café version (gray vs the silver Monogram) and have been very pleased. I've been using it for several months. For my first full size induction cooktop I was concerned about a huge learning curve, but it's been very user friendly. If you have any specific questions I'm happy to help.

mina - I don't have one but agree they are a very attractive cooktop. I'll be building a new home next year and thought the Monogram and Café are some of the nicest looking looking units available. Like you, I've never used induction but have decided I'd like to try it. It will be a big step up from my 32 year old electric coil stove.

seb225 - How do you like the Touch Glide controls? From looking at the videos they seem to be very easy to use. Do you have the wireless probe?

Jim, I like the touch controls. They aren't as smooth as the videos indicate, but they do operate well. They took a little getting used to after using knobs on a 22 year old electric smooth top (not quite as old as yours, but still old in the appliance world!). I don't have the wireless probe so I don't have any feedback on it. If I recall, it only works on one of the burners so I decided to forgo it for the time being. I may add it later. If you get it, please let me know what you think.

Thanks seb225. I figured the doing the circular swipe action on the controls might not be the easiest thing to do but also saw you can just just touch the area of the dial you want to set the temp to and it will jump straight to it which seems much simpler. I didn't know the probe only worked on one burner which could be limiting. It's kind of pricey anyway so I'll probably skip it to start with anyway.