Lasko 4911 42" Oscillating Tower Fan with Remote Control - Quiet Cooling for Bedroom, Office & Living Room - Space Saving Design with 3 Speeds & Timer

I live in a "junior one bedroom" apartment which means that there is a 3-walled sleeping alcove, about 8 x 10 feet with my bed and a little bedroom furniture in it. The only window in my apartment is quite a distance away in the living room. So I've found, for the past 22 years, that I need some kind of fan running the bedroom to provide air circulation while sleeping. Otherwise it gets stuffy and warm in the alcove. I've run through quite a few fans in 22 years. This one is just what I need -- I have a small table and I need a smaller fan that will fit on the corner of the table. This desktop tower fan has a small enough footprint for that. Also, it's pretty quiet. I'm used to a certain amount of "white noise" from a fan -- it helps me sleep, in fact -- but a lot of fans I've tried are so noisy I can't get to sleep. I've been using this on the medium setting and in the small "bedroom" alcove, it's the right amount of air and just the right amount of white noise, fairly quiet, but enough to screen out background noises. If there's a heat wave, no doubt I'll switch it to the higher setting. I like the controls, two micro-touch buttons arranged in an almost triangular whole. The larger of the two buttons is the power/speed button. One push from "off" and it's on the high speed setting and one more push steps it down to medium, and a third push steps it down to the low fan setting. One more push turns it off again. The translucent button glows green from an underlying LED when the power is on. The smaller button turns the oscillation feature on and off -- again, when the oscillation is turned on, the button glows green. (I don't use the oscillation feature myself.) One other nifty feature is that the body of the fan is in two sections -- the top section can be swiveled manually so that the air flow is directed in two different directions for wider coverage. In other words, you can aim the lower part in one direction and aim the upper part in a different direction. Me, I have them both aimed in the same direction to get the air directed at my bed where I want it. It's not a fan suitable for providing air movement in a large space as others have observed, but in an office cubicle or in a small sleeping space such as mine, it's spot on. In smaller spaces like that, a larger and more powerful fan could be too loud and might provide too much blowing air for comfort. The one odd thing is that the "platinum" color (which is white, actually) costs a bit less than the charcoal grey/black model, even though the features are otherwise identical. (I went with the platinum since it cost less and either color was fine with me.)