For years I've always had a Dyson mainly because I sold them as a manager at comet,
I never thought I would change, but the shark completely blew me away, the design isnt pretty, but I wasn't buying a hoover to look good! It was easy to put together, no tools where needed, the suction on the hoover is amazing, the amount of dirt and hair that came out of our carpet using the shark after the Dyson, it gave us a full hooves worth, no hair is sticking to the brush bar thanks to the anti hair design, it also is so easy to hoover stairs, due to being able to carry the cylinder separately from the main body, it has a control to increase or decrease the suction and it has a choice between hard floor and carpet, in my opinion it is a fantastic machine at half the price of most upper class Dyson's!