"Krystal-Clear" is just the Intex brand for their over-hyped salt system. Dunno if it's a good one or bad one, but be careful about the bogus claims.

That said, if there's a warranty, having a salt system would probably make it easier on your wife. I suspect it's probably a decent product for the money -- that's certainly been true of most Intex products -- but on the low capacity low end of things.

They've got great value in most of their products; I don't know why they feel the need to hype them.

Ben