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So today I have with me the Winix 5500 and the Levoit Vital 200S
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Now let's get some similarities out of the way. Both these air purifiers are going to have a three-stage filtration system
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They're going to have a pre-screen filter, an activated carbon filter, and a HEPA 13 filter which is going to capture 99.97% of airborne pollutants
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One thing I found interesting was the setup for the three filters because even though the pre-screen filter is going to be first, hence the name pre
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the next two filters are going to be different. For the Winix, we're going to get the activated carbon
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and then the HEPA 13 whereas in the Levoit we're going to get the HEPA 13 and then the activated
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carbon. So I don't know if that makes a difference or not but that's just one thing. Now an obvious
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difference between these two is going to be the size. The Winix is going to be a little bit taller
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so it's going to be a little bit heavier. This is going to be 16 pounds whereas the Levoit is going
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to be 13.2 and also they're going to look differently so it depends on which style you prefer. Since the
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Winix is a little bit taller it also went ahead and rearranged how the head looks like so since
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the buttons are going to be at an angle we can actually go ahead and see this across the room
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whereas on the Levoit it's going to be flat and if you want to see what mode it's currently on
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you're going to have to look over so when you're pressing the buttons on the Winix you're going to get some sort of physical feedback you're going to hear a click whereas on the Levoit it's all
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going to be capacitive touch so both these air purifiers have something unique about them for
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Levoit it's going to be the pet mode so if you have a bunch of cats a bunch of dogs this one's
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definitely going to be great for pet owners and the Winix is going to have plasma wave mode which which uses ionization and electric air purification to remove air pollutants And you can tell it on from this blue light bar and the way you activate these special modes is going to be different for both these air purifiers The Winix is going to have a physical
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button on the air purifier itself whereas in LaVoy if you want to get the pet mode you have to use
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your phone which is pretty cool because if you're not home and you want to go ahead and turn your air purifier on you could easily just hop on the app and on the app you can also do a bunch of other
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stuff so when I press the on button it tells me what the indoor air quality currently is which is
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very good and here I can change the fan speed I can set it to auto to sleep mode or to the pet mode
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but I'll leave it for auto for now and then there's also going to be schedule so you can
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actually schedule what time you want the air purifier to turn on or off and here I have a
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schedule on to turn on at 1 p.m. and turn off at 2 p.m. and you can also go ahead and set a timer so
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there's a lot of different customization you can go ahead and do on the Levoit but that doesn't mean
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you can't do a lot of stuff on the Winix. Cool thing about it is you do get a physical control
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So if you're across the room and you want to turn on your Winix Air Purifier, you don't have to walk up to it
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You could easily just use this remote control. You can power it on, off, set it on auto mode, set it on turbo fan mode
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which is just going to be the fourth fan setting, or just lower or increase the fan speed
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So overall, you can't go wrong with either of these air purifiers, but if you're looking for something simple, something with a physical remote control
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definitely check out the Winix 5500. But if you're looking for something a little bit more smart home friendly
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something where you can use your phone to go ahead and control and you have a bunch of pets, definitely check out the Levoit Vital 200S
