Two-hose portable A/Cs solve a pressing design flaw in the original machines
Some technology that costs more money isn’t necessarily better or improved over their cheaper counterparts.
I l earned this fairly suddenly as I kept upgrading our smartphones year after year.
The iPhone manufacturers convince you that the new model is necessary with a handful of multiple replaces over the previous iteration. But time & time again, I found that each new iPhone would lose some of the things that I liked about the previous 1. Once I finally realized that these “improvements” are just minimal variations to justify rereleasing the same unit at a higher price each consecutive year, I quit upgrading our cell iPhones until something happened to make them quit laboring. These concerns abound in other industries as well. Many people will tell you that you need to replace your window A/C to a portable unit if you haven’t already. They see the higher price for portable A/Cs & their ease of use as more than one factors proving their superiority over window units. Sadly, this is borderline smoke & mirrors when you compare it to other misleading attempts at marketing. A portable A/C in its original form is inefficient because it needs to pull cool air from your condo & use it to cool its internal compressor. Then the air is pushed outside as heat. Window A/Cs already have their compressors outside the window, so this is a self-inflicted design flaw. Two-hose portable a/cs are better because the air used to cool the compressor is pulled in from outside, but it doesn’t detach their inefficiency completely.