Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

EDIT AFTER 6 OR 7 WEEKS OF USE: I still love this vacuum; as my Great Pyranees and German Shepherd start to shed their winter under coat however, she clogs often. It's not her fault (the vacuum), it's just a schit-ton of hair and clumps. That said, it is still so easy to remove the brush and clean it out, unlike standard vacuum brushes. I really love that you can clean out the brush with no tools needed. Just pop it out, take the hair off of it, and pop it back in. Been using this every day for a week now. 1100 sq ft home with laminate floors, two kids in and out all day in rural America (no side walks just grass and diry/mud) with dirty feet, three very large, very hairy dogs, and two cats and the pets also in and out all day tracking in dirt when they're not just dropping their hair every where all day long. This will sound like a paid review but it's not. We have been using a $1200 Hyla water vacuum for the past several years and while the Hyla has it's many positive features, it's also a huge, heavy, messy pain in the butt to use - therefore we did not use it as much as we should. Even when we did, the very next day we would have what looked like snow drifts of dog hair in all the corners, under the furniture, every where. It was a constant battle we lost on a daily basis. There was this love-hate relationship with the pets because their hair was EVERY WHERE and so gross no matter what we did! For this reason I was skeptical about the Robo-Vac, I just didn't think it could handle the work load. My teen boy did research on robo vacs for a year trying to talk me in to getting one because the boys are in charge of vacuuming and hated the Hyla. The one he recommended finally went on sale so I got it as a family Christmas present. WOW. I love this thing! We named her Rhonda. Rhonda not only keeps up with the work load, she doesn't clog with dog hair the way the Hyla's hose did. That hose would clog several times per cleaning, any little old bread tie wire, wad of hair, little scrap of candy wrapper - clog. Thirty minutes taking it apart and cramming coat hangers down it's throat to clear it. Rhonda doesn't clog. There is no hose to clog. The suction is amazing. We have found an entire dryer sheet and a key chain in her dust bin that she sucked right up with no trouble. She did pick up a rock yesterday and gave us the error message to remove the rock (what the heck is a rock doing in my house? who knows). She also goes under the sofa, chairs, tight corners, under the book cases, right up against the walls, every where the Hyla either didn't fit or was such a bulky pain to use we didn't sweep regularly. Because we put down these laminate floors last year, we put felt pads on the bottom of all our table and chair legs so they wouldn't scratch up the floor. Ever seen what mass amounts of dog hair does to felt pads? Every table and chair leg had a mass amount of hair stuck to them, looked disgusting, everything had dirty furry feet! The Hyla could not get this off. Enter Rhonda! Rhonda has those rotating fingers that scrub up against everything, she pulled all that mass of stuck hair off her first run and has continued to keep it clean since then. Another problem was kids and couch blankets, or any blanket. Blankets end up on the floor, covered in dog hair. No more! Last night watching TV I noticed my boy wrapped in a blanket that was no longer covered in dog hair! Because they love her so much, they also keep their shoes and socket and stuff up off the floor so she can clean. Rhonda wakes up every day at 8am and starts cleaning. It takes her about an hour to do the entire house, bedrooms, pantry, laundry, both bathrooms - all those places the kids and the Hyla generally ignored. Usually we empty her dust bin twice. Because it's so fun and easy to use, sometimes we run her a 2nd time during the day. The noise level isn't bad at all. She gets on the throw rugs by each door awesome, they are cleaner than ever. It is so amazing that I don't have snow drifts in the corners, or wads of hair on my socks. These dogs are Great Pyrenees and German Shepherds - nothing but hair, all day long, hair hair hair! Not anymore! Yesterday we washed the filter. It takes much longer to dry than they say, so I should by a 2nd filter to use. We cannot sweep this morning due to the filter still damp, and Rhonda told me this with an error message that her filter was wet. I can't say enough about this robo vac, I love it love it love it. It's not a gimick tech toy, it's a hard working floor cleaning machine.