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I haven't personally owned the other brands, but I bought a refurbished j7+ (not the mopping kind) for about $300 a few months ago and it has been a spectacular
by dgacmu 3y ago
I haven't personally owned the other brands, but I bought a refurbished j7+ (not the mopping kind) for about $300 a few months ago and it has been a spectacular improvement on their earlier models - I've owned about five thus far over a long time. Roughly the same vacuuming performance (it uses the same rollers and filter as the e5 that it replaced) but the mapping and obstacle avoidance are a really big improvement and I can use it in my kid and cable-messed environment. I was pretty close to giving up on iRobot too.
- Clent 3y agoInteresting that you're being down voted for answering the question while all the ditto comments are not. I have had the same experience with an i3+, which is just a vacuum but with a self-empty base. This i3+ originally didn't have room mapping but they added it after I purchased it. It goes home to charge and empty itself and cleans in a reasonable pattern. I've previously owned the 350 series and some other similar one and they were more toy than utility.
- dgacmu 3y agoI found that kind of funny too. Beats me. :) This is my first one with a self-empty base and I'm surprised how much I like it. I don't think the pre-mapping self-empty units would have worked very well for me because they would usually get stuck, but I've been quite impressed at how well the j7 manages to avoid that. It does have an annoying quirk that it won't run if it's too dark, so I have to schedule it a little carefully or leave the lights on and schedule them to turn off. But I'm really happy with it overall.