I've always had the top-of-the-line vacuums for my floors and they have been great, but even the lightest and best engineered of them were, well, lugging around a vacuum, if you know what I mean. Not a chore I looked forward to. I caved into household pressure and tried out my LG stick and now I look for an excuse to grab that off the charger and vacuum! What a pleasure and powerful machine. Love it!