Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Ok, so it's now day 4 of our Roomba, and I'm going to say...GET A ROOMBA, it is AMAAAAAZING!!! 1) I vacuumed pretty intensely before I started the Roomba on Day 1, and it still needed to be emptied out 3x in one hour. I was both horrified by the amount of dog hair the roomba was able to find, and also impress that it found that much dog hair! 2) because of the style of furniture we got, the roomba was able to get under the bed, the couch, the armchair, etc...basically all the places that I only vacuum once a quarter...but it got ALL the dust bunnies (dust puppies?)! 3) the roomba DOES eat cords. So Day 1 and Day 2, I kept running around after the roomba to wrap up/tuck all the cords out of the way 4) the roomba loooooves socks. The husband and I are pretty cavalier about where we toss our socks at the end of the day, and the roomba WILL find all the socks. So if nothing else, we will be much better about putting the socks IN the hamper (which is not the worst thing) 5) the dog is terrified of the roomba, so she barks at it constantly. But more importantly, she FREAKS out that the roomba comes after her toys (the doesn't suck up the toys - her dog toys are too big...but small lego blocks will get sucked up, so warn your kids!), so now the DOG PICKS UP HER TOYS. Of course, she brings all the toys into my bed or onto the couch instead of her toy bin...but we finally got the dog to pick up after herself!!! LOL 6) the roomba is pretty loud and the first few days you run it, you'll want to follow it around to make sure it doesn't eat anything it's not supposed to. So plan on a week of doing extra work with the roomba. But we're on Day 4, and we just went out to dinner and left the roomba on (the dog frantically trying to get all her toys onto the couch once she heard the roomba go! LOL! 7) you'll want to run the roomba every day to keep up the clean. Also, the roomba is slower than if you vacuumed yourself...but the bonus will be that you won't have to vacuum! But we figure you that dinner cooking/prep time is the best time for us to run the roomba. It's pretty loud (not as loud as a normal vacuum - it's about as loud as the microwave or the hairdryer) so you won't want to run it at bedtime or in the middle of the night. A lot of people run it during the day, but the dog isn't thrilled with the roomba so we might not run it when we're not home...at least not until the dog gets used to it. Long story short...GET THE ROOMBA. It's AWESOME. We got the 890 model and we looooooove it. knowing what I know now, I would definitely upgrade to the 960 or the 980 model.