I love having a breadmaker, although it's not a perfect adaptation to good bread - decent flavor (to my taste) takes two passes, a wet pass on the dough cycle to make sponge and then a pass with more flour to actually knead and make the dough (and usually bake it if I'm feeling lazy, as I usually am - doesn't produce as nice a result as a hot oven and a stone, but it's a lot less work.)
I've got a single-paddle model, a Breadman of about 13-15 years old, whenever they were finally dropping under $100. The dual-paddle models (eg the full-size Zojirushis, although I think they are a few others) look really nice.