iRobot 610 Roomba Professional Series |  | Brand: Roomba
Category: Kitchen
Buy New: $549.95
as of 3/16/2010 21:32 CDT details
New (2) from $549.95
Seller: Hammacher Schlemmer
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 46,169
Model: 610
UPC: 885155000286
EAN: 0885155000286
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Schedule up to seven cleaning times per week for Roomba to clean when it's most convenient for you | | • | Professional grade Virtual Wall Lighthouses create invisible barriers that block Roomba from entering off-limit areas or direct Roomba to completely vacuum one room before sending it to the next room | | • | Two interchangeable cleaning bins: Vacuuming Debris Bin-Ideal for routine maintenance of all floors and cleaning deep into carpet and rug fibers. High Capacity Sweeper Bin- That holds three times more debris than the stander vacuuming bin | | • | Three Cleaning Modes: Clean Mode-enables the Roomba to calculate the room size and maximize the coverage-per-room. Max Mode-enables Roomba to clean larger areas. Spot Mode-enables Roomba to clean in an area up to three feet in diameter | | • | Rugged Accessory Case conveniently stores all of your Roomba Professional Series accessories. Includes 1 extra Bristle Brush, 1 extra Rubber Beater Brush, 2 extra Side brushes, 2 extra Filters, 2 Brush Cleaning Tools and houses a cleaning bin |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The iRobot Roomba 610 Professional Series Vacuum Cleaning Robot cleans up to four rooms on a single charge. It comes equipped with two interchangeable bins, a high capacity sweeper bin and a vacuuming debris bin, that can be utilized for either everyday cleaning or for picking up larger-than-usual amounts of debris. The Professional Series also has extra brushes, filters and cleaning tools plus a convenient storage case to organize and store the accessories and sweeping bin in one place. Durable paint and bumper guards provide a scratch resistant finish to the Roomba Pro and more protection for furniture and obstacles. An extra long power cord allows greater versatility for charging and storing and storing Roomba on the included, heavy weighted, self-charging Home Base. Two Virtual Wall Light Houses ensure the most efficient room-to-room cleaning, and block off-limit areas. Roomba Pro also features three cleaning modes, including Max Mode that allows maximum cleaning coverage in larger homes, offices or business settings. In Max Mode, Roomba cleans until the battery is almost drained, then it returns it to its Home Base to dock and recharge. The Professional Series is also the only iRobot Roomba Vacuum Cleaning Robot to carry a two-year warranty.
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| Customer Reviews:
Great, but not for everyone March 11, 2010
Stickman (Virtually everywhere.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We've had this little critter for about a week now and feel I can give it a pretty good review. We bought the 610 because it has a better warranty than the other models, (2 years vs 1 year), it has the larger capacity bin, has the Max function, and it looks nicer than the other models. This costs us about $250 over the next closest model. ($600 vs $349) Here is how it stacks up.
Warranty: Only time will tell but 2 years is better than 1 year.
Large Capacity Bin: So far, we've only used the standard bin and it's never even come close to being full. We have two dogs (Chows) and we keep a pretty clean house, so I'm not sure that the higher capacity bin will be a beneifit to us. If you have a dirty house, maybe it would. Note: the high capacity bin is really for pet hair and things like ceral, and larger things, not dirt. The filter in the standard bin has to be cleaned every use regardless. The large capacity bin has no filter. So for me, it's just a waste.
Max mode cleaning. We have a fairly large house with a very open floor plan and lots of weird furniture. We hit the max button and it runs for about 1.5 hours non stop. It really does a good job. Way better than I expected. The only issue is our coffee table. It's weird and the little robot often gets stuck. I have to pull it out from under it about half the time. We have a solution for it, we just have to make an adjustment before we run it. Other than that, it does a great job. We use the virtual walls to help confine it somewhat so it doesn't go into the dining room or kitchen. And close all the other doors to the other rooms. Do that and it cleans a 40'x30' L shaped living room and 10'x10' sitting room no problem. We can also manually place it in the master bedroom and other rooms and it easily does the entire room.
On carpet, it's great. But it's almost useless on tile or hardwood floors. All it really does is move the dust around. It does get the dog hair and that's great, but in the laundry room, it just blows the dust bunnies around, never picks them up. The same for the kitchen. Big stuff it gets, but small things it just pushes or blows around.
Complaint: The Max mode can only be manually started. It has a scheduler, but on the scheduler it only runs about 30-45 minutes. And then back to the charging station. I really don't like that. I'm sure they have a reason why we can't run Max mode on the scheduler, but whatever it is, I disagree with it. In our house, we need the full 1.5 hours to clean the room.
Clean up: I do not like it. No bag and the container has to be manually emptied and handled. The brush and beater also have to be cleaned after every run. It's not hard, in fact it's easy, but I just don't like handling the dirty parts. The dog hair wraps around the brush and it's just terrible. You have to pull off the ends and use the included cleaner to clean the brush. It does a fine job, but I just don't like handling it. For a $250 premium price, I would have expected something better in the cleaning department.
Noise: NOT a problem! It's much quitier than our Oreck. Not even bothersome. I can even hear the TV by turning it up just a little more than normal when it's running. High praise for how quiet it is.
Overall, it's fantastic. I would never want to be without it. Is it worth $250 more than the next closest model? For me, no. If the max function was on the scheduler, then I'd say maybe. And if they had a better way to clean it, yes for sure. You get one extra year of warranty, however, for the extra $250, you can almost buy a new one.
Normally I would knock off 1 star for the lack of Max mode on the scheduler and 1 star for getting my hands dirty when cleaning it, but that would only leave 3 stars and this is definitely better than 3 stars. I guess the "coolness factor" raises it back up to 4 stars. It really is cool to see it run and it does pick up lots of dog hair which is why we bought it. But if I were to do it over again, I would buy one of the cheaper models and save the $250. One thing for sure no matter which one you buy; it'll make you feel like George & Jane Jetson.
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