Dreame D30 Ultra: Flagship-ish cleaning for not flagship dollars

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I recently reviewed the top-o'-the-line Narwal Flow 2 – my very first robovac ever, so I got a taste of the "country-club-rich-guy life," and it did not disappoint. The thing absolutely rocks. At $1,400, I'd hope so. If I bought it as a consumer rather than being given a unit for review, I'd be big mad if it didn't work.

Then Dreame asked if I wanted to review the D30 Ultra, its $540 "top-o'-the-line-o'-entry-level" robovac. Sure, why not? I was genuinely curious. It's a vac/mop 2-in-1 unit like the Flow 2 ... I'd also just moved into a new two-story house, and I'm not particularly interested in carrying the Narwal up and down stairs daily (multiple times if mopping).

Setup took all of ten minutes from opening the box to sending it out into the wild to let it auto-map my second floor. It took eight or nine minutes to...

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