I was skeptical on purchasing this vac. Soooo I read all the reviews I could. I went ahead and ordered and thought, what would I have to lose. I was currently using the older one that you have to put the "swiffer like" cleaning pad on it. I am SO GLAD I got this. It is so much more versatile. Ok. So. I will start with the not so awesome (face it, nothing is perfect). Do not buy this if you think this is going to replace your regular home carpet vacuum. My hopes were to just clean my hard floor from dust and cat hair. It does that and I will elaborate more on that. I tried this on my THICK pile bathroom rugs. The vac just pretty much quit on those. I have much shorter thin pile carpet throughout some other rooms of my house. I was pretty happy with what it got up. I was actually impressed because it still left those nice vacuum lines I get with my big vacuum. It does very well on the wall lines. It gets a closer suction than that of my house vac. All while I was vacuuming my bedroom, I kept waiting for the battery to pucker out. It didn't. I was able to vac the whole room to my satisfaction. I then started on my kitchen hard floor, and again I was very happy how it would suck itself up to the cabinet floor lines. Got all the little stuff! This whole time I used the single spiral brush floor attachment. I wondered how the full fluffy brush would do, so I ventured over to that attachment. Before I could get to it, I vacuumed more of my living room low pile carpet and more of my hard floor. I made it to the attachment but I couldn't stop. I was on a roll. Taz (our cat) loves to curl up on the couch, so I used it to pick up all the cat hair on the cushion. I rubbed my hand over it to see if I could gather any hair left, and NOTHING. I vacuumed the small pile carpet beside my cat litter box and I was super happy, it picked up all the loose litter Taz had tracked after walking across his litter "catcher" mat. I used the same attachment to see how it would pick up stray litter off the hard floor. I found that it would vacuum up the litter, although it seemed to throw it backwards somewhat. I was barefoot this whole time and that's how I judged. I finally made it to change out the vacuum head so I started to switch them out. I noticed the catch bin, which to my astonishment, was COMPLETELY full. So full, I thought I woulda shoulda noticed a loss in suction. I never did. After cleaning the catch bin, I tried the other full fluffy brush on the door area. I later found that the fluffy brush would get the bigger pebbles, rocks, and stray cat food that the single spiral brush didn't. The fluffy brush also picked up the litter better off the hard floor than the other attachment, however it took SEVERAL SLOWER motions to get the floor completely "clean". The battery lasted longer than I thought it would. Yes, I have to admit that I would have been pleased had it kept its charge longer, but it is, after all, a BATTERY. Stuff like this can't run forever...until they reinvent a better battery solution. Dyson might entertain the idea of giving this model a corded option. I would buy it. I am SUPER SUPER HAPPY with my purchase. I can't wait to see what Dyson does next.