Combo i8

You're asking this in a dreame sub, obviously people will tell you to go with dreame. I had a roomba I8 combo, have ditched it and bought a dreame l40 ultra ae last week and was not disappointed. Downside is that it's reliable on cloud, but all robot vacuums have that, unless you go with valetudo.

Get one that self-empties! Mine was no help until I got one that self-empties that I can program with an app. It's currently broken and I FEEL the difference. It was expensive (roomba i8, costco, $600 like 5y ago) but so worth it.

We have Roomba i8 and are pretty happy with it. Would give two key pieces of advice: get one with a base that the vac returns to and empties the hopper, get one with a decent mapping ability. With two dogs, I can’t imagine having to empty the hopper regularly. With good mapping, we are able to tell it to avoid certain tricky areas. Also, we clean ours pretty regularly to keep rollers free of hair tangles, and other things it shouldn’t have tried sucking up.

you might have something stuck in the base inlet. 1. Unplug the base, see at the bottom of it, 2. unscrew the transparent plastic debris inlet at the bottom of the base. 3. Clean it from any debris stuck. I am hoping you have something stuck under the bottom, I had the same problem and almost was about to buy new one. but now it is working as it was on Day 1. I bought the original i8 in 2020

I have a Roomba i8 going on 5 years, no issues.

I'm not unhappy with my old Roomba i8 but given their current financial situation I would not buy another one. Also apparently their technology has been surpassed by many other brands.

I was surprised to find my old Roomba i8 and even older Shark pick up stuff better than my new CurvX and EdgeT. The new features on the Roborocks are obviously a huge improvement but actual vacuuming performance on the newer ones is not as good as the older ones. Like anything, manufacturers find a number/stat they can use for marketing purposes and they run with that. Of course people will think that 20,000 Pa of suction will be better than 5,000 Pa, so even if those numbers are completely meaningless, the folks in the marketing department will latch on to that and that's what they will advertise.

I got that exact one a while back. Fyi it is not the self emptying base version, no matter what the description says 😭

That's correct for the self-emptying version. However, they simply did not ship the self emptying version. :( (If you get the self empty version, I'll be livid)