Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Seriously!!! This thing has been a life saver. We recently built a decent sized home, and our downstairs is around 2800 sq ft. Keeping up on vacuuming/sweeping was almost impossible with 2 young kids a cat and a dog! My mom talked me into one of these swearing by it. I was super skeptical of spending $330.00 on a machine that I may need to sweep up after frequently. I haven't touched a vacuum in 2 weeks!!! Our GreatRoom/Kitchen/Dinning/Laundry is all hard surfaces (tile and hardwood) and this thing picks up nearly EVERYTHING that falls on the floor! It picks up MORE than sweeping. Every other day when we empty the bin, there is so much more than just the crumbs the kids drop. This thing goes under our couch. Ask yourself - how often do you successfully vacuum under the couch? Well I do it every day now! LOL :) The 690 also navigates around multiple chairs very well. The 690 isn't perfect. We have a large rug in our GreatRoom and Johnny-5 won't go onto the rug. It's not that tall of a lip either. But I'm okay with that, since 98% of the other surfaces are clean. I set him to start working at 0900 right when we leave the house. There's been one time over the past 2 weeks he caught up a string from a cat toy and stopped. Other than that - I'll drop him in our Master or Master bath/closet and hit clean while we are in the other rooms. I hope these machines to continually get better (smarter, as in map a room without setting up laser fences). This thing is well worth the $330.00 plus some. I'd buy it again in a heart beat.