We ’ ve covered Dyson enthusiasts and vacuum cleaners for years now, being constantly surprised at the utility and wild designs that come out of James Dyson ’ s wee English workshop. He makes things that pull and blow and his newest, the DC44 “ digital ” vacuum cleaner sucks with the greatest of them.

The DC44 is a hand-held vacuum cleaner that essentially changes the DC31 and adds a few tricks to the hand-held magic program. The DC44 has a number of accessories, consisting of a long “ motorized floor tool ” that permits you to extend the handheld ’ s reach all the method to the flooring.

At very first blush, it ’ s simple to ignore the DC44. It ’ s surprisingly small with a compact collection bin and an apparently weak motor. Whereas the previous styles seemed like jet airplanes taking off and in fact delivered an odd feeling of torque on ignition, the DC44 has a little “ digital pulse motor ” that evidently moves at 104,000 Revoltions Per Minute and gives off a shrill whine. The suckage, nevertheless, is fairly impressive. We had the ability to conveniently sweep the kitchen area and hard wood with the longer add-on and it ’ s an excellent solution for choosing up scraps the kids toss off of the kitchen counter.

The greatest thing about the DC44, nonetheless, is the 20 minute battery life and twin speeds. We ’ ve used the old style, the DC16, for years and over time the battery life has actually dropped down to about 2 minutes. To have a vacuum this small and with such a long life is probably fantastic. The extra speed boost is a bit of a placebo – it ’ s already plenty powerful – however it ’ s good to see a devoted button for adding a little bit more oomph.

The charging solution is additionally one-of-a-kind. The Dyson mounts on the wall upside down, which implies if you fill up the front tube you ’ ll have dirt and dirt falling out of the mouth when you go to plug it in. They ’ ve made it so the owner can hold all of the accessories – the long motorized sweeper included – however you need lots of wall room to obtain the whole thing to remain placed.

Now is this thing worth the $ 400 you require to spend to get super-sexy Dyson suckage? I ’ m not rather sure. It doesn ’ t fairly change a real upright – the flooring tool is still too little to actually vacuum and whole room (although you might attempt) – and lots of hand-held vacs can easily be had for a lot, a lot less.

Dyson is the Apple of vacuums and, depending on your point of view of Apple you ’ re either paying for quality or for advertising and cool design. While I would certainly argue that the DC44 is absolutely a durable replacement to the older crop of Dyson portable vacuums, you could have to examine a few designs prior to deciding on this mini-vac. As a primary vacuum cleaner it ’ s a feasible choice to bulky bag or canister designs however as an option to cheaper hand vacs it ’ s certainly worth the cost.

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