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161 of 162 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
It's not 'bad', 14 Dec 2006
We purchased this little dyson for times when you have irritatingly small jobs that you need a hoover for, but don't feel like lugging the large hoover in and out of the cupboard.
I have twin girls, so you can imagine the mess!
If you are looking for a vacuum cleaner, and expecting the productivity of the larger corded types, then forget this little one. However, if like me, you need it for cleaning up the crumbs and clearing day to day mess, like kitchen worktops after cutting bread etc, then this little one is perfect.
I think that many reviews I have read are from people who wanted a miniature dyson, which was pretty much the same as their large one, but in my opinion, dyson couldn't really have done much more when designing it. It is light (weighs less than 3lbs), it looks nice, it's not huge, so it'll fit in your kitchen cupboard, and it has an easy empty function which is great, one click of a button and the dust is in the bin with no mess.
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Yes the battery is a bit pants, but if they had made it with a bigger battery, you would never have been able to pick the thing up! It would have made it extremely heavy and cumbersome. And after all, it was never intended to be a full sized vacuum, it's a glorified dustbuster, so you can't really complain. Also I do believe that with each subsequent charge, my dyson is eeking a little more power into the battery each time, bit like when you get a new mobile, they tell you it won't get up to full capacity until you've charged and fully discharged it a few times.
I can do the stairs and around the edges of my hall and landing thoroughly before it runs out. Today for example I got about 8 minutes out of it, which was plenty for me to do those two jobs. It's IDEAL for the stairs in fact because I almost break my neck every time I try to hoover them lugging my cylinder dyson up and down them, teetering precariously on each step!
All in all I am not too disappointed with my little dyson. I think the price could be a tad cheaper - say RRP of £.. instead of over £.., but when you think of the technology you're buying, it's not really so bad.
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51 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This product is equivalent to a dustbuster not a hoover, 11 Jul 2007
I nearly didn't buy this Dyson cleaner having read the reviews but went ahead anway as I was looking for a product that had a better performance than the dustbusters I had used over the last 10 years.
I have not been disappointed at all and in fact this cleaner has surpassed my expecatation.
If you need an easy to use but powerful cleaner to clear up mealtime detritus, mud on stairs etc then this has a much better performance than the 3 different dustbusters I had over the years due to the power of the suction and the useability of the included adaptors. By implication you are generally not needing it for a 6min clean and I have not had any problems wtih the battery running out or time taken to recharge. It is robust - capable of withstanding my 3year old dropping it down the stairs and has become invaluable in a very short period of time.
However if you are looking for a hoover equivalent, you will be disappointed as that is not the function this product was designed for.
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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Get your kicks from the Root 6., 3 Dec 2007
Last year Dyson finally got a handheld to market in the form of the DC16 Root 6 in "Steel & Yellow". Looking more like a hand-gun from Star Wars than a Dustbuster(tm), it's got a certain gadgety charm. In fact I'd be so bold as to guess that most are bought by men for no other reason than they do look remarkably like a Star Wars prop...
Finished in a fairly tough mix of yellow and swirly grey metallic plastic (not a millimetre of steel in sight), it's got the now familiar cyclone "bit" of a Dyson but on a much smaller scale. It's also got the clear acrylic dust collector that everything swirls around in when it's in use. It's got a bright red trigger to blast the villains with and it even has a neat extending bristle-brush arrangement that clips out of the way when not in use.
It's surprisingly heavy (1.5kg) compared to other "handhelds" that I've used, but the cunning placement of the battery underneath the pistol-grip handle means that it's actually reasonably well balanced. For all it's weight though, the battery doesn't last very long. In fact, I suspect that the reason they call it the "Root 6" is that the battery barely lasts 6 minutes. Now this is an admittedly sensational sentence. Certainly, if someone told me they'd paid £100 for a handheld vacuum cleaner that only lasted 6 minutes at a time I'd think they were a bit of a muppet. Fortunately for Dyson, I didn't know the battery only lasted 6 minutes before I bought it...
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Actually, in the real world, 6 minutes is quite a long time to be using a handheld vacuum cleaner. Particularly one that's as effective as the DC16. Think about it for a moment - typical usage of a handheld vacuum cleaner (at least in my house) is to vac up the ad-hoc cereal spill, the crumbs around the toaster, the rice that inevitably spills out when you get the opened packet off the top shelf of the cupboard. Even giving the car a once-over. None of these jobs take a 6 full minutes of vacuuming. Not really. So unless you want to do all of the above, back-to-back, you should not be overly concerned by the 6 minute battery time. Given the neat charging station that it comes with, it's easy to keep the battery fully-charged, but if you do manage to run the battery down completely, it will take a rather lengthy 90 minutes (or more) to return to full charge.
Ergonomically, this is typical Dyson. All the bits you need to disassemble and clean are easily removable and go back together with the minimum of fuss. Also typically Dyson, any of the filters that you do need to clean will take days to dry properly. Speaking of which, it's worth noting that the DC16 is NOT a wet/dry handheld - if you try and vac up liquids, you'll most likely break it. The on/off trigger has a slight delay before it starts up the motor, as if it's making sure you REALLY want to use it before wasting the precious battery time. It also beeps at you. I'm not sure why, but it's comforting in a weird way. My only gripe is the button to open the dirt-chamber. It's really, really stiff. So stiff that I was worried I was going to break something (like my thumb!) when I first tried to open it. Since then I've got the knack, but be prepared should you buy one... it will be worth doing some thumb exercises before trying to empty it of dust for the first time!
So I've owned by dust blaster for over a year now and we've been very happy together. It's helped me defeat the evil empire (of dust) on several occasions and it's even served in several campaigns in remote locations (the shed, the car, my tent). It's WAY more powerful than any other handheld I've ever owned which means it's far more effective than anything else. It's better balanced, doesn't lose suction and it even looks cool. Ok so it's only got a 6 minute battery life, but I've not managed to run it out yet in over a year of near daily use. So don't let that put you off unless you really do intend to vacuum an entire room with it.
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