Neato Robotics - D7 Connected

The differences between versions is typically pretty small if you're shopping between versions that are 1-2 yrs apart. Unless you \*really\* need a feature or just want the newest thing, I would never recommend folks upgrade in that window of time. My personal success metric on a robot vacuum is simply whether I need to babysit it. My old Neato Botvac D7 required a lot of attention, brush maintenance, and would still get lost periodically. It was best of breed back in the day, but enough time elapsed that switching to the Curv was game changing. I ended up buying a second Curv for the 2nd floor, despite having the option of buying a Saros 10R at the time. I'm probably good for another 5-7 yrs. For me to buy sooner, it would have to be a life changing feature set that actually works.

D7 here On its 3rd life Last replacement was the spindle to turn the brush Do like it

Yeah, I have a Neato D7 that is on its last legs. I've rebuilt it bout 6 times using parts from junkers. It's served me well since 2018 or so, but it's toast. I have to clean the dirt container on the d7 after every run so a couple weeks is fantastic. I'm a little surprised at the report on carpet. Reviews I have read said due to the high suction, this was a strong point. But if it can at least get it done without the battery draining that'd be great.

As a long time Neato user, thanks to the early shutdown of their servers, I had to find an alternative to my 3 botvacs that have been very reliable with nightly cleaning for several years. The products have certainly changed since I bought my last D7, and sorting through all of the offerings has been a challenge, since pretty much anything is going to be an upgrade. So, after spending days reading reviews, this reddit, and several other sites/videos, I settled on two Dreame L40 Ultra's. At 399 BF price, they seem like they have a lot of bang for the buck. Hopefully I won't be sorry. Our house is all tile floors with some area rugs, and has two adults and two indoor cats, so we have some light messes and hair to keep cleaned up. I hope the mopping feature is a nice little bonus. Good luck on whatever you choose.

Interesting to see what all of us Neato refugees ended up with. We loved our "fleet" of D7's and D4's, in spite of their flaws. Since our floors are mainly tile, the wife really wanted one that would hopefully reduce her need to mop to just "deep cleaning" like the vacuums did for that. So far we're enjoying our Dreame L40's, as they give us that functionality that we would not have bought yet if the neatos hadn't had the plug pulled on us. I hope your new unit provides the same upgrade as ours did.

My j7+ served me fine, never had any mechanical issues. But, hairs tangled around every rotating part, so it needed cleaning weekly, and it was stupid, even though it was smart, it did get tangled, navigation errors, telling me can't get into room when it could easily. L50 has clever design, I haven't yet discovered where hair starts to tangle, but I'm really sceptical how long it will last. I did read somewhere new roombas aren't so easy to repair like old ones, tbh that easy modular design made me go j7 and no roborock. And that was wrong decision, irobot has fallen way way way behind when it comes to innovation and features, and I saw with my own eyes how stupid j7 was, even app sucks. Nah would not say my irobot was best vacuum I have had, but it worked as in no mechanical issues. Neato D7 before that has stupid design with side brush that uses small belt, had to change that belt after not much use. And it had all kinds of bugs in software, but cleaned way better that j7 ever did, that big front brush was good, and it had three times the suction of j7.

Currently on the hunt for a new robot vacuum after Neato D7 died after 6 years of faithful service. The D7 was champion on carpets with out of the world suction. For the next vacuum wife said to pick one that has mopping and a base station that automates most tasks. With that on mind, we narrowed our search to Roborock and Mova. We had considered Ecovacs top of the line model but was put off by the reliability ratings from users. What we prioritize most is, hardfloor vacuuming and mopping skills and the best automation possible with dock. Secondly, the app performance for responsiveness and granular controls. Don't really care about the robot vacuum needing to scale Mount Everest like obstacles (seriously why though...?) or voice assistants. With this in mind which of the two robot vacuums would you recommend? Roborock QRevo CurvX or Mova V50 Ultra - both are similarly, but Roborock is the slightly more expensive accounting for discounts as we. Would've like the Mova Z50 Ultra if it releases in North America but alas the choices are these

The D7 was our first vacuum and I loved that little bot. We went with Qrevo as the replacement. RIP Rosie. Long live Rosie II.

I recently got a shark nevertouch combo robot from Costco and it’s amazing! I first tried a roborock and iRobot j9. The shark is better and I researched and watched videos on more expensive ones and it gets my floors so clean I think it’s the best but right now. The roborock was horrible on carpet. My first was a neato d7. It vacuums really well. New one had to at least come close!

I keep going back and forth on buying one. I bought a Roborock Q10 on Black Friday but I have kinda high pile carpet and I’m skeptical on how well it will work. I had a D7

I am using the X40 for 6 months and It is amazing. So much better than my previous Neato D7.