iRobot Roomba 560 (Refurb) or Roomba 790 (New)
- Yes, more Roombas, shut up
- The cheap one is almost as good as the expensive one
- But the expensive one is a better status symbol, and isn’t that what floorbots are, really?
- Does not absolve you from responsibility for cleaning up after yourself once in a while
Roomba upstairs, Roomba downstairs.
Forget your class prejudices. It’s just not true that the Roomba 790 is designed to clean ermine rugs and polished marble while the Roomba 560 specializes in sweeping 7-11 taquito crumbs up from cracked linoleum.
The vast price difference between the two models does indeed separate the 1% from the 99%. But that divide is based less on “how much money do you have?” and more on “how much more will you pay for status-symbol value and incremental technological advances?”
They’re both Roombas. They both do a not-bad-for-a-robot job of cleaning both hard and carpeted floors.
The 790’s cleaning head has been redesigned, the better to nab finer particles with, my dear. They both do Dirt Detect spot cleaning, but the 790 is supposed to be more diligent about it. The 790 comes with an RF remote, so you can drive it around like an RC car. A loud, slow, clumsy RC car.
Um, what else? The 790 shines a little light to tell you when the debris bin is full. The battery is easier to change. The 560 uses “virtual walls”, the 790 uses “virtual lighthouses”. The 790 is new, the 560 is refurbished. The 790 comes with an extra brush cleaning tool, some extra brushes, and a carrying case. Ooh, and don’t forget the 790’s instructional DVD. Movie night at your house!
These differences probably shouldn’t matter much to you… unless they do.
If you’re one of the 1% for whom money is no object in pursuit of the best robot floor-clean experience, the 790 is for you. (Or you could just go buy one of those shmancy Neato 'bots, if you’re one of the truly fanatical 0.1%). But 99% of you will be satisfied - nay, pleased - nay, delighted with the Roomba 560. We’re at least 90% sure of that.
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