I recently got a new frontloader. Love it. Yes some of the cycles take longer. The whitest white cycle is 2 hours. The normal cycle is only slightly longer than my old machine. Maybe 5 minutes. As I was folding the first load I did in it i noticed how much cleaner they were. My DH has worked in the sun his whole life. Now has spots of skin cancer. He has to wear long sleeved shirts all the time. He prefers dress shirts. He is a landscaper and they get gross dirty. Huge ring around the colar and wrists. They actually come clean without pretreating. Some of the dirt had been there for a long time. Love it.