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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
More than I expected..., March 6, 2009
Length:: 3:03 Mins
Someone should have created a video review of this thing but so far no one has. So, I did it myself. You will probably find it in the description somewhere. Anyhow...
I won't bother telling you the things you already know from the description. Everything in the description is accurate except one thing;
The color! It's not even close to orange. Not even a little bit. It's red! I called iRobot tech support because I had a question about buying an accessory. I told them the product title said it was orange and they told me they don't make an orange one. Oh well, red will do.
Sure, you get to be lazy and not vacuum your floors and rugs but it comes at a cost. You must maintain the filter (3 for $20 bucks), and you must remove the hair that inevitably becomes tangled around the brushes, wheels, bearings, etc and inevitably you will have to replace those items. Maintenance is a breeze with this machine though. They sure made it easy. Comes right apart and doesn't take engineer to figure it out. It's all real basic. I'm getting quite good at doing it. In fact, it takes me about 5-6 minutes to complete the maintenance which is still a lot better than actually vacuuming my floors.
This thing is loaded with options that they don't give you and in order to use those options you must buy accessories (remote controls, schedulers, virtual walls, pet hair brushes, etc). However, it's SO fun. To me it's more than just a vacuum. In fact, this thing is bluetooth capable, it can whistle while it works. There's a ton of hacks for it for those of you who like to customize it.
Don't be fool though and buy accessories until you've had ample opportunity to test drive it a few times. Read the fine print about the "virtual walls" and you'll discover that if you've got a home base for this unit, the Virtual Walls may create conflict if they're not positioned properly. Plus, the virtual walls require batteries. I just used a piece of wood on the ground to keep the robot in the room instead of buying a $40 dollar virtual wall. If you're going to buy any accessories for it, I would recommend the home charging base (so that it may drive home itself) and the pet hair brush kit (both sold separately).
This thing is awesome and I just feel so modern having a robot clean my floors. My dog wants to play with it.
If my star rating should need to change or this thing falls apart or ANYTHING goes wrong, I will come back here and update this review for you.
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50 of 61 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
teach it to either cook, do laundry, or put out, and my wife is outta here!!, December 8, 2008
man, what can i say?
i am a true-blue skeptic. i am one of those guys who spends a month online before he buys anything. i get the best equipment for the best deals.
well, my wife has been having allergy problems, and after getting her tested, we learned that she is allergic to just about everything. with 3 dogs, i decided that we needed some drastic help to ease her pain.
this thing does the trick. we have a house that is about 1800 sq ft, and this thing will easily clean half of it in one go. you wouldn't believe what is in the little bin at the end of a run. we run it every day when we get home. we come home, start the iRobot (we named it "Duster", which is odd, because you'd figure a vacuum would have a woman's name...), and commence to our nightly duties (showering, cooking, cleaning, laundry...), and this thing takes care of our vacuuming. we went from needing to vacuum every week to maybe once a month with our normal vacuum. our floors are incredibly clean, and this thing picks up a full bin of dog hair every day. better yet, we don't have to do it!!! it's like having a robotic maid!
this is a must have for any pet owner. all of that dog/cat hair gets sucked right up. all of the dust that hits the floor is gone. it transitions from carpet to tile easily.
it will suck something up if it is on the floor, so carpet tassles, cords, and other such things beware. it does force you to keep your floor clean though (granted stuff that falls on the floor just gets thrown on another surface).
our floors are picked up and vacuumed every day, and i love it. we have a $350 vacuum as well. we should've spent the $350 on that and the $99 on this and bought 2 or three iRobots and a shop vac. and you don't need one of the high dollar ones. this thing does a great job.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Was skeptical about a battery-powered vac, December 21, 2008
I got this vacuum because I have a pet chinchilla that leaves his presents EVERYWHERE when I let him play(yeah, I know it's gross). When I leave the house to do errands I just turn on my Roomba and I come back and the floors look squeaky clean.
The only problems I have with the vacuum are:
1)It sucks up clothes and wires left on the floor and jams (it loves to eat underwear, telephone wires, even it's own charge cord)
2)It occasionally locks itself in the bathroom when it vacuums in there
3)When it vacuums under the bed and then turns off it's really, really hard to reach under there and get it out
4)If you leave something like say earbud headphones or keys, laying around it will eat those whole and just keep vacuuming!
So basically you've gotta pick up before you let this thing run loose, but it works awesome and picks up a LOT of dust too. Overall I would recommend this item to anyone with pets, allergies or chronic laziness.
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