Whynter ARC-12D Portable Air Conditioner

Specs (especially efficiency) and relative price.

Specifications that (in my experience) are not even close to lived up to; deplorable customer service.

Blows cold air and a fair amount of condensation makes it out the exhaust tube.

The unit is quite noisy. Perhaps my biggest gripe is how often it overfills with condensation. On dry days you can leave it going and not worry about it. Humid days will result in it needing to be emptied every hour. Doesn't seem as powerful as a...

102 outside - 70 inside in a medium puter room. very nice

heavy, loud, water drain tube

powerful; much easier to move than a similar-btu window unit; lcd temp control

Creates a vacuum. Air exhausted via the hose is taken from the room. Hence, either (1) your room is air-tight and (I assume) exhaust is poor, or (2) (what happened to us) air is drawn in from the outside and neighboring rooms, reducing the A/C's...

Blows very cold air; portable; digital temp control; easy to set up; cools our 150 s.f. bedroom pretty quickly

temp setting is weird---it cools to 5 degrees higher than the chosen temp; vent tube gets very warm---best if A/C unit is next to a window

My mother lives in a seniors apartment in PA which does not have central air, I bought this for her as the weather was heating up. So far, she likes it just fine. It cools her living room down nicely.

Not very portable to an 81 year old woman. Evaporation hose had to be clamped to drain pan as it was popping off and getting floor wet.

Good price - the cheapest 12,000 BTU portable A/C unit on Newegg. I've had it for ~6 weeks and I have multiple computers running all the time in my room which typically makes my room about 7-10 degrees warmer than it is outside by mid/late afternoon....

No cons, except that you have to hook the vent up to an outside window or something ; but that is a requirement of all portable A/C units

For an upright unit it is terrific as far as cooling! Cools the room quickly and rather efficiently.

There is not an internal condensation bucket or bin like most uprights.

For an upright unit it is terrific as far as cooling! Cools the room quickly and rather efficiently. Great product if you can set it up for continuous drainage.

There is not an internal condensation bucket or bin like most uprights. There is a small hose to run to a drain or then include a little pan to sit on the ground. There is not an overflow alert or anything of the such for this condensation bucket like...

Very pleased with this product.

Looks close enough to brushed steel but it isn't.