Elegant doesn’t necessarily come cheap; these lower-powered units from July and Windmill can get expensive, but they’re a bargain compared to the “world’s slimmest window air conditioner ...

July’s air-conditioner was not tested by Consumer Reports, but Albert Wong, 46, who lives in Orange County, Calif., said he had mixed feelings about the WiFi-enabled unit he bought last summer ...

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They said that when an air-conditioner was operating in energy-saver mode, its fan would have to be shut off, for the most part, unless its compressor was also active.