grahamwilliams dot ca

I’ve been a proud Dyson owner for over three years. I’ve got a Dyson Stowaway; their first canister vac, and (at the time that I bought it) the most appropriate vacuum for the size of apartment that I had.

Cut to three years later and I’ve got a place to call my own that’s a little bigger. I love keeping it clean with my Stowaway, but it can be a pain to store sometimes. Enter the Dyson DC26 City, a pint-sized version of the Stowaway that’s perfect for city-dwellers like myself, or for anyone with a smaller space to keep clean on a regular basis.

The first thing you’ll notice about the Dyson City is that it’s incredibly small and light. I mean, that’s kind of the point, right? I wasn’t prepared, however, for how really small it is. I’ve got lunch boxes bigger than this thing.

I was prepared to be underwhelmed when I plugged it in, but boy was I wrong. The cord is on a very responsive push-button retractor, and pulled out crisply. Plugging it in and hitting the power button made this little marvel quietly roar to life; all my doubts about how much power it would have evaporated. This is a Dyson through and through.

Continue reading »