This vacuum is awesome. It is more lightweight than our previous one. It is also a lot more quiet. The detachable wand is awesome. We can add different attachments to it. I can finally clean above head. The dogs are not attacking this vacuum as much as they do our others. The cylinder is awesome to clean out. You don't have to worry about bags. It goes from carpet to tile perfectly. It cleans really well. The dogs tract in all kinds of dirt and it really cleans it up. We have 8 dogs (2 we had and the rest we took in as strays people from the city dumped out in the country). They bring in a lot of dirt. This vacuum really does clean things up well! We would highly recommend it to others!