RE: Candi
I purchased the Dyson about a year ago, kept it for about a week and returned it. The man at Sears was in absolute shock telling me "no one has ever returned a Dyson before!" Yeah, well before me that is!
It sucked well (no pun intended -- I mean it cleaned the carpets well), and the attachments were cool and all but.... Okay I have hard wood floors as well as tile, so in order to turn the rollers off, I had to bend over and turn a knob EVERY time -- this got to be a nuisance -- especially because I have to turn the rollers off so many times! Bend over turn on, bend over turn off, bend over turn on -- between each room because of my hardwood hallways, this motion was redundant (my other vacuum had a switch on the handle - easy).
The other problem with this vacuum that I had was it was SOOOOO tall that it didn't fit under a dang thing!! I like to vacuum under my beds, under the cupboards and under some chairs, so unless you are willing to use the hose every time or pick up your bed to vacuum under, it became a problem for me.
On the plus side, it worked very well on the dog hair!
Hope this helps!
Sheryl