It's been six months since I bought a Dyson Pure Cool TP07 Fan Air Purifier, and while I
love the design and aesthetic of the fan, I'm going to explain why it's not worth getting,
and it's not for the reason you might think. First, though, let's go through the best features
of this Dyson. The first one being its design: the Dyson Pure Cool is a sleek-looking bladeless fan,
especially with the metallic color of the version I got. It not only looks nice,
but this bladeless design also makes it easy to clean. Plus, because this Dyson is also an air
purifier, the air it's pushing out isn't just recirculating dust around your room. You'll
find the HEPA filters at the bottom of the unit, which itself is also HEPA certified.
The filters are easy to remove and replace, which Dyson recommends you do about every year,
and the Dyson app will alert you when you need to replace them. Replacement filters will cost you
about $80. There's a nice soft-touch material used at the top of the unit where the air inlets are,
but the rest of the housing is plastic, which is fine, but for $649 USD, which is what this
fan retails for, you'd think you'd get something a bit more premium. Even the remote is plastic,
though it looks like something that should be made out of aluminum, like the Apple TV remote. The
remote will attach to the top of the fan, which is nice, though I don't think it looks as sleek
with the remote sitting on top. At the bottom of the unit, you'll also notice a display, which some
might find to look a bit gimmicky, like I first did. But after six months, I've come to appreciate
the data that it can give you on that display. Dyson uses this display for several functions,
like indicating how much oscillation you've selected for the fan. It also has a backward
airflow mode, where the Dyson will just purify the air without blowing it forward. The display will
also show you the levels of particulate matter in the air at different sizes and more settings like
the Wi-Fi status. The display will automatically turn off at night when it senses the room is dark,
but you don't have any manual control over its brightness. So that's the design. Now let's talk
about some other smart features that you get with this Dyson. You get auto mode, which will
automatically ramp up the air purifier when it detects air quality has deteriorated. Overall,
it's worked as advertised, ramping up when I was cooking with oil,
or when I used a paper shredder, or even when I was spraying rubbing alcohol. In that situation,
the VOC sensor ramped the fan speed up to 10, which is its highest setting. One of the biggest
benefits of going with this Dyson Pure Cool over other models is you get a Wi-Fi connection,
which allows you to control this Dyson with smart assistants for smart home control. It'll work
with the Google Assistant, Amazon's assistant, as well as Siri, but only with Siri Shortcuts,
which isn't as full of an integration as you get with Google or Amazon, and Siri Shortcuts does
require a bit more work to set up. You can also control the fan with the My Dyson app,
which overall is pretty nicely designed. It's very simple and has a nice aesthetic to it,
though that simplicity does come at the cost of customization that some may want. For example,
the Dyson Pure Cool has an integrated temperature and humidity sensor, but there's no way in the My
Dyson app to have the unit ramp up the fan speed when your room hits a specific temperature or
combination of humidity and temperature, like you get with other smart fans. The app also allows you
to turn on what's called continuous monitoring, where your machine will generate a report of
your air quality over time. Another huge benefit you get with the app is scheduling. It makes it
easy to set several schedules throughout the day so you can automate how high your fan speed is,
if you want the fan to oscillate or not, and if you want night mode enabled,
which turns the display off and the fan to its lowest setting. Alright, so that's everything I
like about this Dyson. Now let's talk downsides, and aside from the price, there is one downside
that pretty much prevents me from being able to recommend this Dyson, and that's a high-pitched
squealing noise that soon developed after I bought the product. This noise developed on my unit
about two months after buying it, and it's most noticeable when the fan is in its auto setting,
although I have been woken up by it in the middle of the night when my fan speed is at 10 as well.
Here are a few examples of what this noise sounds like: it's a pretty annoying sound that
can be very distracting while trying to work, and even worse, it's woken me up in the middle of the
night a couple of times. The weird thing is, at least for my machine, it's not at all consistent
when it happens. And when I looked into this issue further, I was quite taken aback. Not only does it
appear to be widespread, affecting several models of the Dyson Pure Cool fan and air purifiers,
including their latest model, the TP9, but this issue goes back years. You'd think within five
years Dyson would have realized there was a flaw with their motor design. And after digging through
Dyson's forums on their website, it became clear that the engineering team is aware of
this issue. They think it's likely caused by the motor's bearing, and the only way to fix it is to
contact Dyson and have the motor bucket replaced. It's honestly disappointing that this high-pitched
noise issue has been going on for so long, and Dyson hasn't seemed to be able to fix it in the
newer produced models. Some owners have reported sanding down and greasing parts in the motor did
fix the problem for them, or at least until the grease runs out. But depending on where you live,
that could of course void your warranty, which is only for two years, by the way,
at least here in the US, which for the price of this product, is not great. The warranty really
should be five years. I did contact Dyson to get this model sent out for a repair, but I'm not
optimistic at this point, after seeing forum posts with people doing the exact same thing. They get a
replacement model and guess what? It has the exact same issue. At this point, there is no way I could
recommend buying any of Dyson's Pure Cool products until the company comments on this issue and,
more importantly, explains how they fixed it in an updated design. Until then, my recommendation
would be, if you just need an air purifier, just get one from a company like Blueair,
which I have reviews of that I'll leave in the description below. And they're not a sponsor,
by the way. And then for a smart fan, I bought one from Goie over the summer and have been
really impressed with it. While it doesn't look as cool as the Dyson, it's about a hundred bucks and
has even more smart scheduling features than the Dyson does. So those are my thoughts on the Dyson
Pure Cool fan and air purifier, and if you think I got it right or you think I got something wrong,
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to those by clicking on the cards above. For six months later, I'm Josh Teder. Thanks for watching.