V15 Detect are really well-received for a Dyson (your mileage may vary; f#¢k the current state of Dyson's award-winning customer service), and the power trigger wasn't too big of a problem. Gen5 is a refinement and removed the trigger. To be honest, that trigger and the extra weight are medium-level issues, neither minor nor major. I am talking about truly major problems.
@Hatsuwr consider this: any tool brand can make a dupe. That's one reason why tool brands are to be put into the cheap knockoffs. They're mere tools, and should be treated as some dupes that happens to function but not necessarily work like actual proper mains-equivalent cordless stuffs.
Another reason why I had not directly included the Stratos or PowerDetect: there's simply not enough poll choices allowed. The facts that Shark's cordless models all copied Dyson therefore put them in cheap knockoffs category.
Here's the outstanding enough to be dedicated options within that 10-option vote limit:
- Lupe Pure is pretty obvious, because it's a freaking upright. And duping technologies from Dyson as poorly as normally expected for the time, at that. Then Lupe themselves shut down...
- Samsung Bespoke Jet Ultra (and its less powerful and lighter variant, Jet Lite) are wasteful and dupe-@$$. Just look at the shape of the handheld and the main cleaner head, for example. Bulky dual brushrolls (similar to Lupe Pure), with non-powered soft roller and mid brush bar, and questionable sealing and unswept hard floors edges. The shape itself is too front-heavy even for the on-line version of the form factor that Dyson pioneered - heck, the cyclones are still 3-inlets-per-cone, which isn't too good, unlike the truly effective single-inlet-per-cone cyclones Dyson have had since even before the 5,127th prototype was made. Looking at both the old Samsung Jet review by Vacuum Facts himself as well as the RTINGS review of the Jet Ultra, and you can see why. It gets worse no matter which source (Tom's Guide thought the Ultra was perfect though...), so... yeah.
- SEBO Balance A1 looks like a poor man's V10 but likely performs like a dragged-out DC35 Digital Slim. Ditto for Dream Z30 to V15 Detect, with sloppy sensors holding it's holding nice motor back. eufy E20 tried to be both a bagless stick and a robot vac in one package, which splices up- oh no, I simply can't explain how ridiculous the compromises involved are. Henry Quick is bagged, and that enforces running cost and potential landfills, which is not worth the modern standards.
- And the most damning of all and even more obvious than even the Lupe... FACKING KIRBY! I know not all of you will like it, but Vacuum Facts is right about Kirby vacuums. They're too ancient to keep its legendary status at this point, and even ordinary dupes of Dyson's cordless mains-equivalents are able to outperform all Kirby machines in deep cleaning performance and versatility. A hunting bagged, corded trash that only belong to the first half of the 20th century, not the 21st!
- There are two Dysons as dedicated options. Dyson V8 had to catch up and is too cheap to fully allow for mains-equivalent capabilities (V8 Cyclone is the first to at least reliably come close, based on the new specs), whereas Dyson V16 Piston Animal... f#¢k Dyson's current suits for crippling that otherwise legendary machine out of the box! What a tragic mess.
Commentary there? What commentary? I was just trying to get you guys to vote.
@royalfan103, I am sorry for the apparent bias, but this is about choosing the very best of some of the worst yet.
