Since we have 2 children / Cookie Monster, a hand vacuum cleaner is indispensable! I had previously always small handheld vacuum cleaner, but always the cheapest models (15-30). Here we are, I think so in the middle class and I am very satisfied. At first I thought that he is not good in the hand, because I was wrong, it is excellent even in the hand. The strong battery or engine go well at the expense of size and weight, but you do not operate it for hours. He is much more powerful than all the cheap models I had been - you can pretty much all suck up the front in the slot fits (including pebbles). Cleaning is relatively easy, but I'm not sure how long that is going so well, because the opening of the dirt chamber does not act as if it were 500 times on and go back on me. We use the sucker now for almost half a year and did not notice any appreciable defects.
My conclusion is: this sucker is slightly larger, slightly heavier and costs a little more than some cheap models, but you also get more power - absolute buy recommendation