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is it an upright?  you have to give us an update as to how you like it.  i have used miele vacuums and have been coveting one ever since (they start at $350 for a little one and go up to $800ish for a normal size one), so i would be interested to hear if the dyson is as good as that english guy makes it sound.

good job working the discounts -- i hate spending money on stuff like this too -- its always so much better when you can get a great deal.

That's the exact one I have, dc, except mine is the "purple Animal" version (it comes with extra attachments to deal with pet hair...and is purple). I have to say, I rarely am as happy with a practical purchase as I have been with the Dyson. It is one of the few expertly engineered consumer products out there these days - by which I mean it is easy and convenient to use, which is saying a lot for a vacuum. It is also so satisfying to see all the crap being sucked up into that transparent canister! Dyson RULZ.

i want the purple animal & have been coveting for some time.  enjoy & keep us posted!

You are so lucky. We have one on our registry. I hope we get it.

My in-laws got us the animal for xmas and it totally rocks.  We have 2 long-haired dogs and I can't even believe the difference it makes!!  Revlotionary vacuuming!!

Ally - my house is now about 10x cleaner than it was BD (Before Dyson) - just because I actually *like* vacuuming now. Whoever had that clear-canister idea was a damned marketing genius.

Ok, so i used my new dysons and it's quite something!  My house was apparently FILTHY because I filled the canister to max 2.5 times (granted, my cat and I shed a lot). And my condo is like 650 sq ft.  My last vacuum was doing nothing!  Seriously, I just vacuumed with my other vacuum a week ago.  That is so tragic. 

Anyway, everything went great except it won't work on my flokati rug.  I have a white floko (yes, very 70s) under my DR table - it's huge & white.  Anyway, when I set the vacuum to "carpet" it makes an awful clattering racket and the roller brush things gets all messed up - but when I set it to "floor" it does nothing at all (it turns on, it just doesn't seem to suck anything up from the rug).  What am I donig wrong?  It works great on my wood floors, tile, and my other lower carpets and wall-to-wall.  I just don't think it knows what to do with flokati. 

This is a floko, for those who don't know:

 

Ah! dc - I *love* flokati rugs! You are the first person I've known who actually has one. As for the vacuuming, I think you might be screwed - is it making that very loud angry noise? When it makes that it means it is unhappy and getting crap wound around the rollers (I shed a lot of long, thick hair and my hair actually sets it off every now and again). This would be time-consuming but you could use the wand on it if you had someone/something to weigh down the corners?

Also, I hear you on the filth! I was shocked by how much crap there was that the previous vacuum wasn't getting. When I 'tested' it out at my parent's house we tried it on a rug, and it turned into the whole house, my mother insisted, alternately fascinated and horrified by how much just...dirt...there was in the carpets/rugs.

-- Edited by Mia at 17:35, 2005-01-03

Luckylily, get it! I had more fun with that thing than my Manolos.

It is totally fascinating to see what it sucked up. I was so embarrassed yesterday because I was telling my coworkers about my purchase at a staff meeting and I got all excited and confessed about the 2.5 canisters of filth I sucked up. I am always telling them things I probably should keep to myself without thinking. Everyone was like, "Ew -gross!" and then I realzied they thought I was a filthy slob. I tried to explain that I'd only vacuumed with the Kenmore a week before, but I could see they didn't believe me... sigh. They don't just understand the Power of the Dyson (well, one coworker tried to say she'd had a similar experience with her vacuum, but i think she was just trying to make me feel better). Plus, the canister is not so big.

Mia, it IS making the loud and angry noise. And ditto on the human hair as well - when I was done with my bathroom rug (which is actually a bristly grass floormat that does plenty of its own shedding - I sucked a ton of that up) there was all this dc hair wrapped around the brush paddle thing. Ew. I noticed with the floko that right away there were white yarns all around it. I triedc using the stair tool, but I think that flokatis are just made to be taken outside and beaten, just like in their origins in Greece. No vacuum can tackle the floko.