Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

My fiancee and I bought this a few weeks ago with gift certificates from her shower. She was so estactic to be getting it. After three weeks we are returning it. It is a great idea.....whose time has not come yet. Even though it is second generation it has some severe limitations. First it really doesn't sense anything. It goes in circles to start and then when it bumps into things it changes course. It doesn't have enough horse power to go over rugs on a regular basis. Sometimes it makes it sometimes it doesn't. It really doesn't clean all that well. It leaves stuff a regular vaccum would get no problem. But the biggest thing is it is MORE of a hassle and MORE work than a regular vaccum which it makes it completly beside the point. It fills up its incredibly small dirt container quickly. And even when that doesn't fill, the brushes need to be cleaned and it breaks down to the red something is wrong light within 10 minutes of use every time. Now we don't have the cleanest house, nor the dirtiest. But good old fashion vaccums handle our house just perfectly. Haven't had to do anything but change bags or empty dirt containes for the last three years. With the Roomba I have spent more time vaccuming than ever because it is so tempermental. Now if you have big open rooms without rugs on the carpet I can see getting this...and liking it quite a bit. But if your living space had furniture and nooks and crannies and rugs and obstacles over a good portion of the floor space the Roomba is MORE work for vaccuming not less. If they get one with a MUCH better sensor and more horsepower for going up over rugs then its time will have come. Come back in a couple of years for the 4th or 5th generation Roombas. Until then, just buy a nice regular vaccum. It will save you time and effort and a lot of frustration. We both wanted to love this. But it is what it is.