Quote from Trilobite on 04/26/07 at 4:19pm:

 
Trilobite:
 
Technical foul.  Low blow.  Hitting below the belt!  
Worse product ever to bear the HOOVER emblem.  I never understood the reason that HOOVER, which pioneered the revolving brush/agitator in uprights, continued to put out a line of hand cleaners that were all straight suction, like the Dustette and Pixie.  While other makers, like Royal, had a lock on the hand cleaner sales with the revolving brush.  And still to this day, Dirt Devil corners the hand cleaner market with millions sold every year.  
 
And one of the reasons I never sold HOOVER hand cleaners, even as an authorized HOOVER dealer, unless a customer insisted on buying.  My favorite seller: Royal metal with revolving metal brush.  Sold many.
 
Carmine D.

Hi Carl:
 
Like I said, there are enough problems with the DC16 hand held, I don't have to invent them.  I posted an epinion on the DC16 on the Forum by a dyson fan who said his run time was under 5 minutes for a 3 hour charge.  
 
I also mentioned that I timed a DC16 demoed on HSN and it died on the air shortly after 3 minutes.  Too short a period of time to complete the demo.
 
I also questioned dyson's truthfulness in not stating in its DC16 product literature and on the USA Web site what the actual run time is for the DC 16.  A very important specification for a rechargeable.
 
I opined that the reason dyson does not is because it is not 5 minutes (which is so short a run time for $149 that it is laughable) and possibly and probably even less in real life.
 
I noted that a Forum poster Artie V has an agry face next to his mention of the purchase of a DC16.  Maybe he would share his run time for the DC16 with us.      
 
Carmine D.

Quote from RAT on 05/02/07 at 3:10pm:

 
Hello RAT:
 
Nice try.    I'm not nearly as smart as you.  Excellent and honest review and match up.  My compliments.
 
Carmine D.    

Hello Jimmy P/OT
 
Thank you for an honest and sincere assessment of the latest dyson upright.  I agree wholeheartedly with every word of your praise.  At $469 it is probably the best buy of all the dysons including the DC21 Stowaway canister (which I plan to stow away and never use again once I buy my own DC18 Slim).  Well worth the meager price.  After all, its is built by no less than 500 engineers lead by the quintessential engineer himself: Sir James.
 
If I can just add the single most selling point of the DC18 Slim (IMHO):  At 16 pounds AND with the capability to flip and flop all over the floor with ease and comfort every which way and mean, the users will enjoy vacuuming with it so much, they'll never want to stop.  
 
Carmine D.

Quote from Carmine_Difazio on 05/10/07 at 2:44pm:

 
 
Although James Dyson is certainly an inventor and a well rounded person, he has more of a liberal arts background rather than formal engineering training.  Curiously, James studied at the "Royal College of Art for four years, where he studied furniture design, then interior design."  Not that there's anything wrong with that.   I'm not sure whether the term "engineer" means the same thing across the lake that it does here.