Roomba vacuum, lowest price Roomba Discovery

Roomba Vacuum

 

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New 500 Series Features Include:

  • Improved navigation and floor coverage
  • Improved edge and corner cleaning
  • Improved brushes and filters
  • Improved anti-tangle technology
  • Schedule up to seven cleaning times
  • Automatically returns to the self-charging Home Base™
  • Most efficient room-to-room cleaning

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Mable’s has always taken an objective and personal approach in our product reviews, so I have to be honest: The Roomba vacuum cleaner kind of confuses me. I love useful technology, but vacuuming seems like one of the least labor-intensive chores of all time, so the lure of a robotic vacuum is kind of lost on me. However, there’s no shortage of Roomba vacuum devotees who, just months after purchasing, can scarcely imagine life before their Roomba FloorVacs. For all you Roomba-lovers-in-training, this page is for you! Not only am I going to help you find the lowest price and the most helpful reviews, but also some surprisingly entertaining information.

The Original Series Roombas released in 2002 (including the Roomba Pro and Roomba Pro Elite) had plenty of flaws, but since the totally redesigned Discovery Series was launched in 2004 there have been nothing but glowing Roomba reviews from customers. This new line of Roomba robots also have 3x bigger dustbins, advanced dirt detection settings, a 3 hours charging time (instead of the original 7), about 1,000 sq. ft. vacuuming on a single charge, and the ability to return itself to a “self-charging home base” when the batteries are low. Or if you’d rather have your Roomba clean until it runs completely out of batteries, you can set it to “Max Clean” mode (not available on Roomba Red). The Roomba can’t tackle shag carpet, but hard floors and low to medium pile carpet owners will see comparable or better performance than standard upright vacuums.

Roomba robotic vacuum, Discovery Series
Roomba Pink Ribbon
4188
Roomba
4105

The Roomba Red is the entry-level robot vacuum which still has the 7 hour charger and only 1 “virtual wall” (which creates an infrared beam that confines the floor vac to one room). The Roomba Pink is almost the same except it has the 3 hour charger and 20% is donated to the Susan G. Komen foundation. The regular Roomba also has a 3 hour charger and a total of 2 “virtual walls”. The Roomba Discovery and the Roomba Discovery SE have all that plus full function remotes and the snazzy little “home base” station where your Roomba will automatically go to recharge its batteries. In addition, the Roomba Discovery has a wall mount storage unit, and the Roomba Discovery SE has a charging wall mount.

There are a lot of stores selling the Roombas, and the lowest prices are usually online. Perhaps the most important thing to consider when buying online is the warranty. iRobot offers a 1 year warranty on all their Roomba models, but they have a policy in place that voids the warranty if the Roomba is not purchased from an authorized seller. Namely, this means eBay sellers. Although you can usually find a great deal on any model of Roomba via eBay, you won’t be receiving the 1 year warranty. Since the new Discovery line was totally rebuilt the Roombas tend to live long, maintenance-free lives, meaning you will probably never have to exercise your warranty.

However, if you like the security that a warranty provides, then you have another option if you want the lowest price available:

The Hammacher Schlemmer store offers a
free unconditional lifetime warranty

on all of their products, including the
Roomba Discovery SE

Roomba Discovery SE 4210 with lifetime warranty

The lowest prices for the other models of Roombas are as follows:

Roomba Red
Roomba Red lowest price $149
($14.99 shipping)
Roomba Discovery
Roomba Discovery lowest price $279
(free shipping)

Roomba and Roomba Pink are currently only available online through the iRobot store at full retail price. No matter which retailer you buy your Roomba from, be sure to register it with iRobot to receive a 15% off coupon on your next Roomba accessory purchase.

And now that you’ve done your research, it’s time for a little fun. Here is an article that hilariously details an owner’s first time using her Roomba… and how her pets react. Perhaps even more LOL inducing is the YouTube funny Roomba videos. And hey, if you hate mopping as much as you hate vacuuming, you’ll be happy to know that iRobot has a Scooba mopping robot on the way!

More Roomba Reviews: PC Mag (8/26/04), PC World (6/12/04), independent review for Roomba Red (6/04/05)

Other Resources: Roomba robotic experiments, Roomba articles, Roomba blog posts and photos, photos of Roomba’s insides, what a perfect name!

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