I love my oliso. I dont think I could ever go back to a regular iron again. It took me a year to finally cave in and get one. The biggest attraction to me is that the sole plate is facing down and no accidental bumps from my dane puppy whose nose is now higher than my ironing board or from my kiddo. My last iron was a black and decker that lasted until the dane and kiddo bumped the ironing board and it fell forward and rolled off my ironing board and shattered.