I have an older Cuisinart that mother in law gave me and I love. Although I may need to replace soon. It has one "button", more of a lever, and it's the middle size.
Due to this being the first year I've gone bonkers with Christmas baking, I noticed the other night while pulverizing apples that I can smell the motor. Uh oh. Of course, the poor thing has helped me make 18 jars of applesauce in the last week, plus 3 boxes of crushed vanilla wafers, two pounds of crushed nuts (pecans and walnuts), and three bags of pulverized coconut.
A couple of years ago I used it to shred about 150 zucchini for freezing, for zucchini bread.
I've also used the small blade to mix bread dough; grater to shred cheese; slicer for potatoes au gratin...
I love my Cuisinart!