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hi I'm Andrew Gebhardt for CNET today I'm taking a look at the Bissell bolt ion two-in-one lightweight cordless vacuum it's terrible like one of the worst vacuums we've ever tested it does have a few unique features you can get under the furniture easily with the pivoting handle and its edge reach focuses airflow to get the sides of the floor more easily I just wish it had a button to help you I don't know vacuum the middle of the floor cuz my gosh is it bad at that on pet hair it tangles everything and grinds it into the carpet I'm Cheerios it makes crumbs it's completely improperly balanced especially with the hand vac removed it's going to fall over front to back constantly and the pivoting head means even if you get it right front to back it's going to dip to one of the sides and removing the hand vac well let me put it this way it's not intuitive at all to the point where I challenged everyone in our office to see if they could figure out how to do it intuitively everybody tried and tried but without the instruction manual we would all still be stuck the solution is just to tug on the thing but tugging on it feels like you're gonna break it it's definitely not easy and you don't want to get this vac for any sort of elderly parent who doesn't have upper arm strength and here's the thing ease of use is supposed to be the point of stick VAX you want a vac that you can grab for a quick and easy cleaning not only will this one take much longer to get out pull out the pain-in-the-butt hand vac to empty the dustbin clean off the filter and put back on the hit-or-miss charging stand but most of the time the way it tangles or flings dirt your floor is going to end up worse than when you start pass on the bissell volt ion for the same 180 dollar cost you can get the excellent hoover linx by comparison this thing is really not worth it for more please be sure to check out my full review in all of our other vacuum coverage on CNET comm for CNET i'm andrew Gebhardt