I looooove my Oreck iron. In fact, my original iron (got in a package deal when I bought the vacuum) stopped working over a year ago. I checked into buying another Oreck iron and they were like $150+, which I could not afford. In talking with one of my co-workers, she mentioned that she needed to buy a more lightweight iron because hers was too heavy, and she was going to throw it out - amazingly, it was an Oreck! She just gave it to me and wouldn't even let me put some money toward her new one. I was thrilled.
I've had more than one Rowenta iron and I hated them all.... too much spitting all over the place. I had a Black & Decker extra-long cord iron that I liked also. And I have an old-fashioned dry iron that I bought at our local Job Lot store which is pretty awesome and gets very hot (so nice for pressing quilt blocks).