De'Longhi

Pinguino AP98 GentleJet

De'Longhi Pinguino AP98 GentleJet

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Sentiment score50% positive
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Last updated: May 11, 2026

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Reddit IconFrequent_Bag9260
9 months ago

DeLonghi Penguino AP98 was great for me. It’s bulky but if you can hide it away it does the job very well.

Reddit Icon3rd_Floor_Again
9 months ago

We shamelessly bought a portable one here in Switzerland, De'Longhi Pinguino, pretty good.

Reddit Iconbobijntje
11 months ago

I got a good AC from the Italian brand DeLonghi. Also got another one from Ayce (do have split level apartment). The DeLonghi one is the best of them two.

Reddit IconCraigIsAwake
5 months ago

My De'Longhi was still going fine when I put it out for hard rubbish after about 20 years.

Reddit IconDiligent-Apricot-416
about 1 month ago

I love Black & Decker. Used to love Pingüino when Costco sold them.

Reddit IconDramatic_Prior_9298
11 months ago

Mine is a DeLonghi Pinguino. Had it about 4 years and no complaints. https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9453490

11 months ago

Yes. We use it in our living room which is quite large and open and it's great. The hose goes up the chimney. If you used it in a single room it would be Arctic-like which I'd love 😄 I would say it isn't noisy but not sure others would be able to cope with it being on. It's a similar level of noise to an airfryer, imo.

Reddit IconDrawerPuzzleheaded49
11 months ago

Buy a delonghi pinguino, adapt a second tube ( intake ) to don’t suck any cold air from inside to cool down the compressor! Place near a window, tubes outside, and find a way to isolate so no hot air comes inside! If u need some tips, i can show you my setup!

Reddit Icondry-brushed
7 months ago

We used a portable refrigerative air con temporarily (with removable window kit & tubing), which did the job for the master bedroom when we had a newborn (waiting on the ducted installer).

7 months ago

Pretty sure ours was a Delonghi, but this was many years ago - so there could be better options out there today

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