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I bought this particular french press because I was going to use it for camping, and I thought it would be wise to go with metal over glass. Sure enough, this thing has bounced around with me for thousands of miles, been banged off rocks in mountain streams, dropped, kicked and stepped on, and it still works as well as when I bought it a couple years ago. It never got all the grounds out of my coffee, but what the heck? The insulation is nice, too. I'd say that it keeps coffee drinkable for a couple hours.

Great little press. This is the only one I've found that combines insulation and a French press. As an added bonus, it isn't glass and therefore doesn't break.
With coarse grind coffee, I haven't had much of a problem with "grounds leak." Those few bits that do sneak through aren't especially unpleasant... think of them as added fiber...

It's as fast as a regular coffee machine and makes much better coffee.

Short answer: Pretty good, nor perfect, but recommended.

Screen does not appear (to my amateur eyes) to fit the walls as smoothly as a bodum glass model I saw, i.e. there are small indentations in my screen that may or may not merely be cosmetic, but then again mine arrived dented as was probably abused be a previous jerk who returned it (and then they re-sent it out to me -- why, I dunno.) Anyway, it doesn't seem to affect the coffee, but I'm a novice (as if it matters).

I think an uninsulated one would be a real pain. This keeps it hot for a 30 minutes to a few hours (with the time varying mainly on how much coffee you leave in it). A glass one would lose heat rapidly by comparison so if you drink a pot over an hour or so like me you'll really want this or bodum's similar offering.