Hoover Platinum S3865

This cleaner has a split personality, part upright model and part canister. It offers good cleaning performance and a wide range of cleaning tools, including a dedicated pet hair tool. It is a little awkward to use, though, with the removable section not adding much benefit to the cleaner in use.

Offers extreme cleaning power in a large, bulky cleaner, with plenty of cleaning tools and a long reach.

Two vacuums sold as one unit; the upright’s decent, the canister vac isn’t.

A high-end canister unit that uses cyclonic cleaning technology to create a lot of cleaning power in a small unit.

Exceptionally good at one thing: touch-ups on bare floors. Beyond that, it's barely better than a dustpan and brush.

A cheap, no-frills canister vacuum that offers basic cleaning features and acceptable performance.

A compact and maneuverable -- albeit expensive -- vacuum that's best for small spaces and wood floors.

The {{product.name}} is a heavy duty upright vacuum cleaner that boasts a wide range of features and offers good performance. There are some issues that make it more difficult to use than others, though, such as a poorly designed and thought out control system and an overly large section that has to be removed to empty the dust container.

The $299 Hoover S3865 is compact and effective, with few bells and whistles

Wood Floors

An old fashioned design that performs best on wood floors and short carpets

The $140 Hoover MultiCyclonic SH40060 is a light, maneuverable canister that falls short when it comes to getting dirt out of thick carpets.

A new vacuum lineup brings us one step closer to the Samsung-ularity.