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0 pointskubanczyk3y ago0 comments

Which type do you recommend? The two combos I had bought generally didn't work: they could only dry a very very limited load (less than a half). A standalone dryer turned out much more effective.

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leobg3y ago· 5 in thread

Steve Jobs used a Miele. Also washer dryer combo.

whitepoplar3y ago

Did he have a combo machine, or a separate washer and dryer? For some reason I thought he had separates.

leobg3y ago

I’d say it’s inconclusive:

> Our family just bought a new washing machine and dryer. We didn’t have a very good one so we spent a little time looking at them. It turns out that the Americans make washers and dryers all wrong. … We’d get around to that old washer-dryer discussion. And the talk was about design. We ended up opting for these Miele appliances, made in Germany. … They are really wonderfully made and one of the few products we’ve bought over the last few years that we’re all really happy about. These guys really thought the process through. They did such a great job designing these washers and dryers. I got more thrill out of them than I have out of any piece of high tech in years.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/457580-design-is-not-limite...

deprecative3y ago

Steve Jobs also wore jeans and a turtle neck, and offed himself with his diet, twice. Maybe he's not someone to take nods from.

sourdoughness3y ago

I have one, and it’s an excellent machine (15 years old, no sign of wearing out), but the dryer is fairly lacklustre. It can only dry about half a full washing load, but I suspect that’s just physics: however much a machine can dry, it can wash more.

We air-dry everything anyway, so it’s not a problem for us, but I wouldn’t want one somewhere that relied on machine-drying a lot.

leobg3y ago

Yes. We bought them as separate devices because of that.

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