Pick your poison: Main equivalency!

[cheesewonton]

@royalfan103, we need to talk.

1) Hmmm... That belongs to the "knockoffs"/others.
2) Never heard of the Rainbow vacuums before.

You are just a troll. Go away! Compact is an original, designed at the request of Howard Hughes for use in his aircraft, specifically TWA which he owned back then ( Howard Hughes built TWA from a tiny nothing to a global giant, then weirded out on drugs in his old age and was booted by the TWA Board of Directors, who replaced him with someone who would run TWA into the ground, Carl Ichan ).. Since all the commercial vacuum makers were busy producing war material and it was literally illegal for them to make vacuums due to wartime mobilization laws and rationing. Howard Hughes approached a friend of his with an aircraft company who had helped him design his racing airplanes. Making it for an airplane got around the restrictions of mobilization and since aircraft engineers designed it, the design was unique, used a still unique magnesium-aluminum allow for lightness and was built to aviation standards of quality.

 

[Absolute Rainbow]

You are just a troll. Go away! Compact is an original, designed at the request of Howard Hughes for use in his aircraft, specifically TWA which he owned back then ( Howard Hughes built TWA from a tiny nothing to a global giant, then weirded out on drugs in his old age and was booted by the TWA Board of Directors, who replaced him with someone who would run TWA into the ground, Carl Ichan ).. Since all the commercial vacuum makers were busy producing war material and it was literally illegal for them to make vacuums due to wartime mobilization laws and rationing. Howard Hughes approached a friend of his with an aircraft company who had helped him design his racing airplanes. Making it for an airplane got around the restrictions of mobilization and since aircraft engineers designed it, the design was unique, used a still unique magnesium-aluminum allow for lightness and was built to aviation standards of quality.

I am not a troll. Calm down, before the mods strike us down! @cheesewonton

 

[herbicide]

I am not a troll. Calm down, before the mods strike us down! @cheesewonton

Please mods, strike this down!

 

[keldrin]

When your list is predominantly "improved handle" and "extended warranty", I think that makes my point and reveals you don't yet really understand what constitutes a fundamental technological upgrade. Unfortunately, I don't think you're my target audience and so I won't be responding to your comments anymore. Sorry.

I understand what you're saying. We are in a world of people wanting easier and faster. Robot Vacuums are very popular for instance. Chasing the newest tech can be addictive. And for many, using the newest tech makes vacuuming more fun.

 

[Vacuum Facts]

Compact, which later became Tristar, had cyclonic action back in the 1940s. It is how they maintain airflow as the bag fills up. Air comes into the bag chamber at the top and makes a big rotation that leaves the dirt piled up in the front of the bag chamber ( inside a disposable bag that in turn sits inside a washable cloth bag that acts like an expander cage ) leaving room for air to flow over the dirt as the bag fills. They don't lose airflow as quickly as other vacuums as they fill.

I'm confident this is apples and oranges when it comes to the cyclonic filtration claims. I'd love to see the hard evidence of this, but I know it'll never be provided from your track record.

Robot Vacuums are very popular for instance. Chasing the newest tech can be addictive. And for many, using the newest tech makes vacuuming more fun.

Yep. I've never liked robots, personally, but there are entire channels drooling over them. My entire channel has mostly evolved into vac tech that's genuinely advancing. There are some great advancements in the V16, for example—ruined by some stupid and very un-Dyson decisions elsewhere—that have been entirely overlooked in reviews so far. The future tech replacing cyclones for good reasons (that again, no one's talking about) looks very interesting. Sadly, only Dyson are forking out for the expensive R&D, and the copycat clones don't interest me. I'd love for there to be another company that did serious original R&D to compete with Dyson, but Dyson is a private company, and public companies don't employ economic models which champion heavy R&D, since it's not maximally profitable. That's the real problem: greedy shareholder suits.