The TRUTH About Vacuums #7
This may be fine for your situation, but it has been proposed that you can have both, and on this planet, you can't. And for $400 plus, one should make sure that weight is the primary consideration, not cleaning power. Some have bigger motor fans than others, etc., but the "leading" 8 lb upright (9+ actual lbs), has a 4 amp motor with a motor fan (the thing that moves air & dirt) slightly larger than a silver dollar. While the brush is certainly scraping dirt off the surface, you're not flushing air through the nap, and thus leaving dirt down deep. And if you have pets that shed, this arrangement often can't push the clumps of hair up the tube ( about 1" diameter) & into the bag. In fact, they have a sticker telling you how to un-clog it. If it were my company, I'd fire my sticker designer & hire another mechanical engineer to fix this design flaw!