how is it?

Yeah, Roomba 614. Payed $32 👌 I love it, and having seen how it works, if it failed, I would 100% replace it, but I'd shop around for a nicer model.

it's just a vac, right

Yeah

not those ones that mop up the floor as well

No, but they're pretty cheap relatively

Roomba ones are $200 new

Xiaome makes a solid contender for robot vacuum, and there's at least two other brands I can't recall.

if I were to get a roomba one

what would you suggest

980/960/i7

The high end ones.

damn, my max budget is $200

This one picks up dirt, but it just drives until it hits something, then randomly rotates, repeat until battery is low.

maybe I should just stick to sweeping the floor....

Roomba doesn't make one for $200. I think the Xiaome is under $300 though.

Get something that you can schedule that also maps the area and had some pathfinding/logic to it, rather than just randomness until low battery.

And EMPTY DAILY.

>Get something that you can schedule that also maps the area and had some pathfinding/logic to it, rather than just randomness until low battery.
probably me with the cheap electrolux vac I have now

Don't hafta clean the filter every time, buy at least dump the dirt cup.

kek

Ours is also doing maybe 1000sq/ft which is fairly cluttered though.

But boy. Random pathfinding struggles with a table and 8 chairs.

thinking about it it's probably overkill

If it's a smaller less cluttered space, it'll matter less. Check out some comparisons online though, especially if it's preventing fucking roaches.

my small as fuck HDB flat is really small

I should probably stop being lazy and vacuum better

I'm all about being lazy.

no, it really is small

https://www.hdb.gov.sg/cs/infoweb/residential/buying-a-flat/resale/types-of-flats

it's a 2-room flat (type 1)

45 sqft

Meters, isn't it?

oh yeah

sqm*

484 sqft

is it worth buying a robovac for something this small?

Was gonna say. 45sq/ft you'd barely have room for the Roomba

Eh. I like lazy. We also rarely sweep/vacuum as often as we should. This keeps it clean without any work.

Kinda just comes down to if you value your time enough to make it worthwhile. Also, if you have a good spot to hide it in. Walking around it in a hallway sucks. Leaving it under a coffee table doesn't.

do they do a good job?