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hey see that I'm right Chris and I'm here with the dyson DC 41 animal complete vacuum cleaner now this is a very very high-end vacuum it's 649 dollars about as expensive as you're going to find and it promises top-of-the-line performance so naturally we wanted to figure out just how top of the line of vacuum this is so we put it through a comprehensive series of tests we did pet hair and cereal and human hair sand sawdust nuts and bolts you name it we threw it at this vacuum to see what it could handle and overall this vacuum did very well it is a top of the line high-end vacuum it does extremely well one of the vacuuming things up however I have some major qualms with it that make me say it's a no by now let's take a look at the design of this thing when you hear the word dyson when you think about dyson products at dyson airblade dyson vacuums you probably think a good design you think these are products that are cutting-edge and they're made in the laboratory and they're very advanced and they're just meticulously plotted out but the problem with this vacuum lies in the design first off you can't bring it out of its standing position without yanking it you can't step on it somewhere there's no button you just have to give it a good yank and I hated that I felt like I was hurting it every time I put it down and what's worse if you don't put it down all the way these back wheels here won't pop up and get out of the way and it makes it so it vacuums very poorly and it's an easy thing to miss so you have to kind of be careful with it then when you're putting it back up it doesn't always snap into place the way it should you hear a click but you need to click it and give it a little extra oomph to make it stand up if you don't it'll fall right back down and I can't tell you how many times during testing I would click it up to put it into a standing position only to have it fall back down towards the floor and I'd have to dart down to catch it on top of that let's take a look at the wand the wand reaches pretty far it's got a lot of attachments that's what you get with this dyson animal complete aside from the attachments the hose itself just isn't very good it's not designed well there's no handle there's no good place to hold it like I said it performed very well it got a 9 out of 10 in performance but in terms of design Dyson's notorious for good design and this is not well designed so I'm a little stunned by it now all that out of the way there are a lot of good things about this and there's a reason at 649 dollars not just the performance it also gets the dyson ball which is very good as for the canister itself it's got a nice size it's fairly easy to open and dump out and close but if you look at it it's just got a lot of little plastic kind of flimsy parts that move around a little too much the plastic itself is supposed to be the same stuff they make riot shields out of dyson is very proud of that and i have no doubt that it is very strong it's not going to break or crack but the rest of this plastic here that's not riot shield material right there and that doesn't really inspire our confidence so I guess the point is if you like Dyson vacuums if you love this design and think the Dyson is a really quality brand sure this is the best vacuum they've got it's going to do very well it's going to clean up any messy throw at it but I think there are better vacuums out there with better designs that do just as well this is so expensive it needs to be perfect in order for us to love it and it's just not for CNET I'm right Chris