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Which type of vacuum to buy used to be a no-brainer: Uprights were best for carpets, canisters for bare floors. That dichotomy still holds for readers we surveyed, who preferred an upright for carpets and a canister for everything else. But the best of both now clean equally well. Our latest tests also show that some models in either category can compromise your home's air quality.
Of the 47 vacuums we evaluated for this report, two canister models--the Dirt Devil Vision 82600 and Hoover PowerMAX Deluxe S3607--spewed a high number of the small particles that can be especially irritating. A third machine, the Fantom Wildcat WC2000A upright, created a dust cloud ...