Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Love this robot vacuum! I spent HOURS watching reviews for every brand out there. I found Vacuum Wars and Modern Castle the best sources. While I’d love to get the Roomba S9, I can’t justify the cost. On Black Friday I bought several models to try and this was by far the best over the Shark IQ with sled empty and Roomba i7. The power is great! It picked up 2 dust bins full after I ran the Shark. It’s quieter than the Shark too. The battery life is great. I can do the whole house, 1 level and about 1250 sq ft of cleaning area with 50% of the battery. The mop is simple. It doesn’t replace normal mopping but keeps it cleaned up and dust free between cleanings. The home mapping and app are great! I love the no go zones and lines to keep it off area rugs when I have the mop attached. I wish it would allow me to make 2 maps, one for vacuuming and one for mopping but when I did it got confused. It tried to start but because it had 2 maps of the same space it couldn’t position itself. I had to delete one map to have it work. So multi level mapping works but they have to be different layouts so it knows where it is. You can name rooms and order which rooms it cleans to help with efficiency too. I agonized over getting S6, S6 Pure or S6 MAXV. Pure is the lowest end of the series but differences are negligible. The S6 has a smaller water reservoir than Pure but slightly larger dust bin. S6 has 2 more sensors too and I believe it has no mapping zones which Pure does not have. The charging is also faster in the S6. But I really wanted the S6 MAXV. It has 2500 suction compared to 2000. The water reservoir is a lot bigger at 300ml compared to 140ml on S6 and 180ml on the Pure. MAXV also has electric water distribution instead of the gravity driven on the other models, but after using the mop on the Pure, it does well enough. MAXV is about $275 more than the Pure and didn’t feel like it had $275 more in features. The Pure does an amazing job. I’m hopeful the emptying bin technologies improve over the next couple of years because that is a game changer but they need some improvements to be worth the cost. Check out all the brands before buying. Some are better on various surfaces than others so you need to get one that is good for your home. Again, Vacuum Wars and Modern Castle had the best information IMO. The videos were better than the data sheets. Hope you find what works for your home!