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Re: Dyson 360 Eye

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Post by noir_lord »

deanclatworthy wrote: post #41
veidr wrote: post #3

I always thought Dyson was crap, based solely on their obnoxious ads and garish design. Then I bought my wife their cordless upright vacuum for her birthday (I know, I know, but she asked for it). I was astonished when the vacuum became my favorite piece of tech in the whole house. We have a roomba that works fine, but it's extremely hard to imagine that I won't buy this thing immediately.

There was a recent reddit AMA by a vacuum repair guy, talking about the best brands: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1pe2bd He was not impressed with dysons: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1pe2bd/iama_vacuum_rep... I have to say in my experience, having had 2 dysons - they both broke within 2 years.

Had a DC07 for ~13 years never had to touch it beyond rinsing the filters once.

Of course the plural of anecdote is not data.

Re: Dyson 360 Eye

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Post by cpr »

Others have commented similarly, but I just have to say that we've tried various Dysons over the years, and they always start off brilliantly. E.g., we vacuumed a nominally clean bedroom with a new Dyson upright and it was like steam-cleaning, or better, since it was dry--we pulled out a whole container's worth of dirt.

But then after 6 mo to a year, they start to fall apart, with (their many internal) joints not sealing, vacuum power dropping, motors failing eventually, etc., etc.

I don't think Dyson engineers understand nor design for long term durability.

We've switched to Miele vacuums and couldn't be happier.

Re: Dyson 360 Eye

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Post by PhrosTT »

allegory wrote: post #14
veidr wrote: post #3

I always thought Dyson was crap, based solely on their obnoxious ads and garish design. Then I bought my wife their cordless upright vacuum for her birthday (I know, I know, but she asked for it). I was astonished when the vacuum became my favorite piece of tech in the whole house. We have a roomba that works fine, but it's extremely hard to imagine that I won't buy this thing immediately.

You're in the "dyson love" period. It'll wear off, then it'll be: a) they go wrong which happens very often with uprights from experience. The hose goes as does the roller belts and the motor. Also on multiple models, the clips on the can are so bad that the moment you detach it from the unit, it pours its suckings all over the floor again. All parts are expensive. b) they suck the wallpaper off or the floor tiles up…

I had a canister style dyson. The hose indeed ripped all the time.

Re: Dyson 360 Eye

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Post by melling »

So, the HN comments are pretty much negative. People seem to be overlooking the most important thing. A hugely successful product in this category will be the spark that launches the home robotics revolution. More players, more money invested, etc.

I'm really not sure why robots aren't already vacuuming our floors, raking the leaves and mowing our lawns by now.

Re: Dyson 360 Eye

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Post by bithush »

unwind wrote: post #4

Fantastically annoying page design. Scrolling takes many seconds to just show the next page, with no indication that anything is happening. Just blank blackness. Then each page requires you to hunt and click little circles with pluses in them, just to show a paragraph or two of copy. Would it have killed them to just present all the text at once? Perhaps use tabs or some other "normal" solution to the problem of want…

Clearly it was designed and tested in IE as that is the only browser that it actually works in. It almost kills Firefox for me.

Re: Dyson 360 Eye

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Post by githulhu »

delsarto wrote: post #23

"17,000 rpm with digital pulse technology" ... I guess that means a PWM DC motor controller?

"Digital motor" raised my eyebrow too. Apparently it's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reluctance_motor

Guess marketing didn't think "Reluctance motor" had quite the same ring, and I'd tend to agree.

Re: Dyson 360 Eye

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Post by kekub »

bithush wrote: post #58
unwind wrote: post #4

Fantastically annoying page design. Scrolling takes many seconds to just show the next page, with no indication that anything is happening. Just blank blackness. Then each page requires you to hunt and click little circles with pluses in them, just to show a paragraph or two of copy. Would it have killed them to just present all the text at once? Perhaps use tabs or some other "normal" solution to the problem of want…

Clearly it was designed and tested in IE as that is the only browser that it actually works in. It almost kills Firefox for me.

Actually I wanted to state that as well. It works like a charm in IE 8 (Usually no site does, despite HN).
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