My wife has a hair dryer thats noisy, takes a good 3-4 minutes before it gets hot, and doesnt move much air. It was in the same price range as this dryer, just purchased from a major store.
I decided to give this hair dryer a try for her and she has enjoyed it. Not only is this dryer smaller (along with its power plug), but it moves more air than her major brand dryer. It moves so much air that I use it to clean out my gaming keyboard on the cold air setting.
The heat works near instantly and doesnt have a warmup period. The attachment is magnetic and doesnt requiring rotating it screwing in to securely hold it. The magnets holding the attachment are strong yet still easy enough to remove.
She hasnt had any complaints with this dryer and neither have I. She can dry her hair without waking the whole house up and I can stop buying cans of compressed air to clean my gaming keyboard. Im waiting for my desktop to get dusty so I can use this to blow it out.
The dryer is more compact and travel friendly. She took it on a business trip and said it was as small as the tiny built-in hotel one, just much more powerful and quiet. Surprisingly, weve both gotten use out of this.
Her, and my, only complaint is the back control. You slide it up to turn the dryer on. The first setting turns on the heat, the top setting turns it off. The front buttons control fan speed and heat level, when set to heat. Its easy to move the slider all the way up to the top, which is the cold air setting. It would have been nice to just slide it up to one position to turn it on, then use the front heat control. Press it once to enable heat, twice to set the heat to medium, three times to high heat, and a fourth time to turn the heat off.
Other than that, and its a small complaint, this has been a great hair dryer that my wife and I have gotten use out of, just for different purposes. I highly recommend this dryer. It is price competitive with bigger names that perform worse. Save your money and get this instead.