I am another who prefer bags over bagless. Much easier to change (yes, even bottom-fill bags on uprights), no filters or bins to mess with, and you don't have to worry about emptying out after each use. We had a Wal-Mart/GE bagless upright a few years ago (which was probably Eureka-made), and over time, regardless of how often you cleaned the filter, it slowly began to lose power. We're now using a Rainbow D4C as our main vacuum, which, for all intents and purposes, is bagless. My mom loves it; she is amazed every time at the junk it picks up in the water. All this time I thought she would have been the last person to love a Rainbow, considering the fact that emptying and keeping the tank clean can be a chore. It does a fantastic job of cleaning but I do think it's a bit inconvenient, though. Although I've never had to use it in my room anyway...the Frankenvertible takes care of that. <br
However, if I *HAD* to have a bagless upright, it would be a Dyson and nothing else. I will definitely keep that DC17 Absolute in mind; NICE-looking machine. Hopefully the brushroll is better than its predecessors; if it is, perhaps this will be the model that I will "bite the bullet" for and purchase <br
All of the "standard" Dysons such as the DC07, DC14, etc. have absolutely no appeal to me. Noisy and flimsy, in my opinion. I did try a DC15 Ball shortly after it came out and the way it handled almost had me sold, as well as the fact that it was a very quiet machine. However, when the Best Buy rep dumped the contents of the bin on the floor to vacuum back up, it did not like the pile of dirt at all. Took a few passes, and some of it either scattered across the floor or stuck to the nozzle itself. It's a shame because except for the nozzle, I really like the overall design of it. Except for those retractible wheels, it seemed more "solid" than the others, <br
--Austin
