As one Navy vet to another, get one. But others said shop around for the best price. We use ours everyday due to frig ice maker doesn't keep up.
My dear wife makes me iced tea to drink almost daily, plus I drink lots of iced water daily. Now that I am retired, I do not have the free ice I had at the office for all of the iced water or tea I drink daily. So the frig makes ice for the tea maker she uses and I use the other for my iced drinks. I rarely run low on ice needs now.
When we travel, the portable one goes with us. It can be plugged inside or out since it continues to make ice as long as it has water to make ice with. If you don't empty the ice holding basket, the ice just melts and the machine makes more, whether inside or out.
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