I know what you’re thinking — “that’s a weird title for a review”, but bear with me, okay, and you’ll see just why I’m never returning the V11 Absolute Pro that Dyson sent over to us for a review.

Yeah, that’s all of the add-ons, adapters, and heads I saw when I opened the V11 Absolute Pro’s box. It’s impressive. From there onwards, things just kept getting better and better.

The V11 Absolute Pro features remarkable design. It does. It’s not flashy or tacky, but it’s not too much of an understated design either — after all if you spend Rs. 52,900 on a vacuum cleaner, you’d probably not want to keep it hidden from the world, or maybe that’s just me, but seriously, even if you keep it in plain sight for the entire world to see, I wouldn’t blame you — that’s exactly what I did because damn this thing looks great. It’s a clean looking, relatively minimal design that just isn’t something I had expected to see on a vacuum cleaner. Plus, it’s hyper-intuitive in the way it’s been made. All the accessories of the V11 Absolute Pro just click into place and can be clicked out of being attached to the vacuum, or the extension wand with minimal effort and time. There’s a display on the back that shows you the mode the vacuum cleaner is being used in (more on that later), and the cleaning-time remaining.‌‌ The filter simply locks into place, and can be cleaned with just a twist-off to take it out and cleaned, and cleaning out the waste-bin is just as intuitive. Overall, if I were to sum-up the design of this vacuum cleaner in a word, I’d say “intuitive”.

Once I had unboxed the V11 Absolute Pro and awed over the sheer amount of accessories it came with, it was time to actually clean with the thing, and once again, things just kept getting better and better. First off, this is a cordless vacuum, which makes it extremely handy to use around the house without having to constantly manoeuvre the electrical cord around the house, through furniture settings, and in-between different power sockets for every other room. No, this just needs to be charged and charging the V11 Absolute Pro is, once again, an intuitive process — clearly, Dyson has made impressive design choices here.

A lot of that is also thanks to the fact that there are attachments for every use-case you might have. There’s the motorised-roller tool that comes with a soft roller and is great for cleaning wooden surfaces, there’s the mini-motorised roller tool that’s great for cleaning carpets and couches, and there’s the High Torque cleaner head that is great for cleaning floors and carpets thoroughly, and it can detect the surface its on and adjust suction accordingly — so you get higher suction and faster roller movement on carpets, and lower suction and slower roller movement on the floor. It’s pretty great. High Torque cleaning head

The V11 Absolute Pro also has three different power modes that I have at my disposal.

Eco is what Dyson recommended I use this vacuum at for regular usage, and that’s exactly what I did… for a couple of days. The Eco mode is honestly great for everyday cleaning — it’s powerful enough, and lets the battery last longer.

Cleaning and Maintenance

Remember that scene in Friends, where Monica cleans her apartment with a vacuum cleaner and then cleans the vacuum cleaner with a smaller vacuum cleaner?‌‌ Yeah well, that was funny, but vacuum cleaners actually do require cleaning and maintenance, so Monica was doing the right thing, but I digress.

Speaking of the display on the back, this is also where the V11 Absolute Pro displays the remaining cleaning time, and the charge percentage when the unit is connected to the charger.

Charging the V11 can be achieved in two ways:

I tried charging the V11 Absolute Pro both ways, but I didn’t install the wall mount out of sheer laziness, so I’m still using the wall mount, but it’s more of a floor mount now, which is just… well, it is what it is.

Pros and Cons

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Dyson V11 Absolute Pro Review: My Precious

In conclusion, much like Gollum was with the ‘Ring’ in The Lord of the Rings, I am not willing to part with this vacuum cleaner, and that’s as much of a surprise to me as it probably is to you. The V11 Absolute Pro is amazing, it offers easy usability, great battery life, more power than you will normally need, an army of attachments for almost every use-case you might have, and so much more. It is pricey, at Rs. 52,900 for the regular variant and Rs. 59,900 for the special Gold variant that also brings a floor-stand along with all the accessories in this one.