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hi I'm Katie 2010 for Sina and today we're going to talk about the dyson dc50 animal vacuum cleaner this vacuum retails for $499 which is a really steep price sticker for a vacuum especially when you consider the market but as it is a Dyson that $499 price sticker may not shock you as much what may surprise you however is that it's performance doesn't really live up to its price point this is a fine vacuum the dc50 performed well in all of our tests but our large particle tests on hardwood revealed that the entire success to this vacuum seems to be in the brush roll which dyson recommends that you deactivate on hard surfaces so relying on its section alone it did well with small particles but did a bismil e with pet hair and Cheerios it is great with pet hair on carpets so if you are a pet owner with largely carpeted areas in your home the dc50 will perform as expected and collect all of that pet hair for all of its good performance and Dyson's reputation for making excellent vacuum cleaners we found this one to be a little bit flimsily designed or at least that's how it seems everything on this vacuum seems to be made of plastic that coupled with certain design flaws that were not really wild about makes us pause about the durability of this vacuum for example on the bin right here this button that you push to open the bin itself it's a really thin plastic pin that does the depressing and it just doesn't feel sturdy I don't feel confident that it would withstand lots and lots of usage over the course of years emptying the bin is simple enough but if you need to do a deeper cleaning of the Cyclones or the internal working parts of the bin it's more complicated than we feel it should be but still I feel like Dyson could have designed this to inspire a little more confidence since design is one of their hallmarks moving forward with design perhaps the most recognizable feature about Dyson vacuums it separates them from other vacuum brands is this rollerball technology but the very thing that makes this Dyson vacuum so unique is also something that kind of inspires a lack of confidence and as for example the ball is supported behind by two plastic axles with really small guiding wheels attached to them the wheel fell off in one of our final tests and I don't have a ton of confidence that this would stand the battering that most vacuums go through over the course of that 10 to 15 year lifespan that a lot of people keep them for another problem that we had was the locking mechanism to bring this vacuum into an upright and locked position you have to push it forward until it clicks unfortunately this clicking sound is really misleading as a lot of times we would push it forward until it clicked and then it would fall backwards on us long story short the dc50 is a fine vacuum cleaner and if you have it in your home it's doing a good job I'm sure but there are better values if you're in the market for a new vacuum we would definitely recommend that you look outside the Dyson brand as a lot of other manufacturers are making vacuums that are just as sleek and just as modern with all of the cyclone technology and none of the design flaws foreseen at with the dc50 I'm Katie Colton