$449 Dyson Fan vs. $15 Walmart Fan: Will Dyson Lose AGAIN?! 

If you stand behind a standard fan and speak into it, your voice will sound like a Dalek. I bet the Dyson can't do that.

If this one does just as good you might as well make a fan review channel

Dyson fans are so absurd they cross the line from "creative, innovative design" to "reinvented wheels for people with too much money and not enough sense".

Dyson is "easier to clean" because you can't clean the dusty fan and internal pathways. I don't see how this is an advantage.

Laminar vs Turbulent air flow likely the reason the Dyson was able to move more air, further.

Thank you for this video. I just watched the video from 2 years ago and got to watch this new one after 3 days you realeased it. I just came at the right time. I liked the last comment regarding the value. I agree if you buy two or even more, not 10, but a a few more, one could get a lot of airflow at at a lower speed, hence quieter and more uniform. That if the room is big enough to host more fans.

I personally prefer the regular fan. Mainly because I actually like the sound of the fanblades spinning.

As the saying goes, If it ain't broke, don't fix it

Love this comparison series!! Do more :)

I just have to say, I love the consistency of the NASA shirt in both review videos! Awesome review! 😆

Really cool analysis and a great improvement of test measures after the previous one. It puts things on proper perspective of what you get vs what you pay. One observation - you have not measured the watts of more expensive traditional fan. It is more of formality than information, but I would still consider it a good thing to do in a well constructed review and analysis.

Great video. Dyson is not best value, but def has its niche, e.g. tight space, sleeping room or at night. Thank you for sharing to help us know where exactly we spend or save our money at.

Thank you for your work. For the money I will get the old style

Simple, and informative appreciate you.

I commented on the video 2 years ago, I was still at uni 😂. As I explained before, you are actually moving less air at a reduced speed with the Dyson design ("bladeless"). On your next video, I'd recommend you show a CFD or air flow simulation. The reason why you got more air from the Dyson at a further distance is because it covers a smaller angle therefore is more directional compared to the open fan which has a wider angle thus shorter distance

The Navia fan you mentioned is super hard to find, and apparently made in mexico. Couldn't find it on Amazon or Walmart.

A few years ago I bought some Vornado fans, and they beat the pants off a couple of other fans I have, both for power efficiency and pushing air across the room. They don't oscillate, but they coooooool!

Walmart fan has the added benefit of collecting dust. Which my OCD brain pleasures in as I meticulously clean every nook and cranny of it.

Mark, nice comparison. Where did you buy the tall shelf behind you?

Good job Mark man!

Sooo can u drop the link to the fan?

Here is an idea. How about running the Dyson versus an older vintage fan like an Emerson 77646.

You should test the air temperature at those distances too. Air flowing throw a smaller aperture ought to be cooler.

I'd say the dyson has better directional flow because they way its made. The typical fan has no air flow guidance. It's just a chaotic cone. If you had a short tube made of some cheap card stock or leftover cardboard to guide the air you'd see a difference in the directional/long distance strength.

Great Review!!

on a technicality this is fine, but what about practical? because dyson covers more than the fan so on your body its going to cool more, where as the walmart fan will just be on your face. so is it really being out performed?

Ohh my god. U r alive on RU-vid. 😂😂😂

One is to cool you. One is to cool a room

It would be interesting to see the power output of the Dyson with the air purifier agains a normal fan and air purifier combo.

I just have one question… how did you buy your Mainstays fan in Canada for just $15 🥴?!

I was one of those nitpickers you replied to on the last one 😅 No comment on this one other than job well done!

Good Job…Thank You !

Do a teardown between the Dyson fan and the regular pedestal fan

Thanks for doing this

but what about the heater option? How effective are they. also in regards to the cooling, it can be noisier and louder, but is more more effective? does it cool or heat the room better than others?

Which one is cooler?

The AM07 does not connect or pair with the Dyson app a nice fancy dising just a bit dissapointed with the performance and NOT WIFI or Blootooth connection

the whole point of the dyson is as a purifier the fan is just an add on some people even ask if it can be used as a fan

I bought a 50$ Electrolux 3 years ago to help me through the hot summers and it's perfect. 6 speeds, timer function, swing function, and it has 5 blades instead of the cheapest 3, making it a lot quieter. It emits a nice quiet hum at night helping me to fall asleep. Basically it's just a bit more nuanced "cheapo" fan that perfectly does it's job. But paying 450$ for that thing? Get outta here.

I’m wondering what effect directionality and laminar / turbulent flow have on this comparison. Laminar vs turbulent could be a factor - a laminar flow would affect how far away winds travel before succumbing to chaotic environments. But I haven’t seen anyone mention directionality yet. Consider two light sources: a 15 watt LED lightbulb, and a 15 watt laser. They both produce 15 watts of light, but in very different ways. The lightbulb illuminates everything around it, but that light doesn’t go very far. A laser illuminates just a little dot, but can do so over hundreds, thousands, or hundreds of thousands of feet. In your fan comparison, what happens to the airflow readings if you take one step to the side? Given the Walmart fans have a large, circular design, I suspect that there will be a fall-off of speed, but I’d hypothesize it would be less fall-off than the highly directional Dyson fan. But I haven’t run tests so I don’t know for sure. Which would be the better design then? If you wanted to cool a larger space, maybe Walmart fans would be better, but if you wanted to keep specifically one spot cooler, the Dyson fam would be better?

Probably if you test bldc pedastal fan. It will beat Dyson fan in all areas

You should compare the turbulence of the fan, that’s what make the bladeless fan special in the first place

You aren't measuring volume of air moved

You forgot to measure the energy consumed by the third fan. Also, assuming you are not using the bladeless fan at max setting all the time, it seems that it's relatively low energy consumption can justify it's price by paying for itself over time.

I so want the Dyson fans to work well, for the design element alone ...I would pick the Dyson fan if it was half the price

Does the fan filter the air? It’s my understanding that I’m not buying just a fan with dyson.

It's not only the value, output of this, output of that. have the traditional fan blow at you (yes it has power) but after a while you will feel the effects of being constantly blown at. So, no traditional fan for me.

I found this video because I wanted to sanity check my own findings on the AM07... Anything above speed level 3 is "noisy" in my opinion, and has an unfortunate high-pitch ring to it.

Thanks. You just saved me $350! (the Dyson was on sale price)

I’m just surprised he didn’t say fuck it and try the industrial fan I got best 50 buck noise machine I got that keeps me cool

I live in Ghana and I have never seen these Dyson fans in our main malls 😂😂

The sequel 😄

You forgot to measure width fan movement. AKA when at a distance how far to the left and right can you without major losses of air speed.

CFM, cubic feet per minute, a $25.00, 20 inch box fan moves about 5000 cfm, how much does any dyson move?

If Dyson wasn’t so overpriced I wouldn’t mind the annoying noise

My question is, does the dyson make the air cooler? Like an AC? Windspeed or sound doesnt really matter. What matters to me if it makes the room cooler.

Awesome video as always, though if I had any complaints its your choice of graphs for this. Especially when comparing a bunch of datapoints from the same source to each other, I think a line graph would have made it way easier to read than a bar graph.

just measure wind speed does not translate to airflow amount 100%. It's only measure air speed at a single point in space. Better to measure the airspeed across different points in front of the fan then multiple the cross section area by the air speed at each point to get a volume of air moved per second in order to compute airflow rate. Since an centrifugal compressor can produce air velocity significantly faster than either of these axial fans but have very airflow because it can only move a small amount of air. But from a physic stand point, momentum scale linearly with velocity but kinetic energy scales with air velocity square. So it's 4 times as much energy to move air twice as fast. It's generally more efficient to move a lot of air slow than a small amount of air really fast, for the same volume of air moved. So if you really want to maximize cfm airflow, a ceiling fan with largest diameter will move the most amount of air using the least amount of energy.

Seems like diy dyson loops would be the answer.

Can you stand in front of a Dyson and make this A sound?

nerfing and handicaps to be equivalent…to a $10 fan. 😆👌

Kay

I came here to know how silent the dyson is. not at max power, but at lower powers. regular fans are too strong for my taste, and too loud for me to sleep comfortably. is the dyson QUIETER than the other one at lower power outputs? great video otherwise man, this is really convincing me to get a dyson, since I am bothered by the "minimum" settings of regular fans usually being way to strong for my taste.

any vintage fan will blow both of these out of the water

now imagine how you'll react when you use a vintage fan

didnt you post this video some time ago? I feel like I've seen this already...

I think what we can conclude is that Dyson is great at making things that suck and bad at making things that blow. Adding more of a serious note here: I love Dyson for its continued strive to innovate. On design front, they absolutely nail their aesthetics, but I feel their products suffer because of it. Despite going against the stigma surrounding Dyson as a more of an engineering focused company with many of the products I feel it’s the case of over-designed and under-engineered or as I love to quote, “Form over Function”. Seemingly a pioneer of the bagless vacuum industry, Dyson really does stand out with their vacuums. Especially since they are continually looking to improve the design. They are on version 15 of their popular cordless vacuum. If you want to another Dyson video, I’d recommend the cheapest vacuum you can find compared to the newest model of Dyson. The price difference is staggering as usual, but in that test Dyson might actually give you a run for the money.

Buy 10 cheap fans

Have you ever tested if air multiplier technology (bladeless design or whatever) somehow provides air flow with relatively lower temperatures? By the way, the video is perfect - congrats.

So basically an Air Conditioner that goes for 300€ (without installation) is much more effective than this overpriced dyson fan. And also, dyson fan would have been cheaper if it was without the air filtering system and the trademarked unique design

Dyson dunked on again

You measured mph/hr or km/hr or m/s, but what is the range vertically or horizontally that they produced those numbers? If the Walmart fan only produces that speed at its center and the Dyson produces that speed from top to bottom being significantly larger then it’s apples to oranges.

Just brought a Walmart fan $28 and change with tax in 2024.

Dyson is like Bose.. sold solely based on flashy demos and brand recognition.

I understand the fan speed tests BUT the traditional fan just pushes whatever temp the air in the room currently is. The point usually for tower fans are cooling. Can you please do some videos where you compare fans that are both meant to actually cool the air and not push it around? I really like your review style I just feel you’re missing the point for those of us who need fans that cool instead of move hot air around 😂

I got one of the dyson fans when they first came out and I was working someplace I could get an employee discount on them. That fan has been used for my wife to sleep with for 7-10 hours a night, over 300 days a year, for over 14 years now. Are the Dyson fans overpriced? Absolutely. But for some people the steadier noise of the Dyson can be a more effective white noise generator, and you will get a fan that you'll probably be passing down to the next generation in good working order.

volume or air moved is the key you really aren't measuring...but I'm definitely not saying by the dyson for that amount

I'm a $0.00 fan of none!

I want that stand fan (jk)

Do one comparison: Point the fan (both of them) for a whole working day directly to your face and run it at the lowest speed (dyson is level 1). Watch your eyes a day later. No need. to say additional words here. The Dyson Airflow is absolutely smooth. You can count on that, that i dont like to speed 500+ bucks for a fan, but i never regret it to chose the dyson

Zenfone 10 video....?

Made in China vs Made in China fan....

Yeah, I'm not a ... big fan of the Dyson fan.

Nonsense the dyson bladeless fans are much better than any fans 😊

Your review was pointless. The Dyson unit is not just a fan, it’s a cooling fan. Does it do a good job of dropping the temp in a room? A fan will move around warm air, but will not cool a room.

Lol if you used a branded traditional fan like kdk or Mitsubishi that will beat the crappy dyson as this fans even the basic ones moves air fast n strong. N yes they cost more than regular traditional fans but ngl they are the ones that should be used to compare against dyson