Last year I wrote a more in-depth piece about the seven things I thought people should know about buying a portable air conditioner, so I won't go into as much depth here, but I'll give you the short version, and you can read that piece if you want to dig in. The key thing is that it really does feel quite different to a fan for long-term use. A fan provides a temporary reprieve by passing extra air that helps you radiate your heat away, but it's not actually cooling the room, so you get diminishing returns — and fans don't help pets so much. As I mentioned above, overnight is when I really fe
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