I don't have carpets. For my personal use, the vacuum cleaner is super, small, not very noisy, it perfectly in any debris, including hair. Here someone wrote about linoleum, and so I also have floors with linoleum, and it works great and in as it should. The handle has a power regulator in the form of a damper and it is very convenient to vacuum both linoleum and laminate and floor tiles with it. As for the cord, I agree, it could have been longer. I definitely recommend buying.