This trimmer is easy to use for beard timming. The vacuum boost really does contain the trimmed hairs so that trimming your bread does not make a mess on the bathroom counter. I The brochure says that you can pull off the plastic guide used for bread trimming (you really can) and then use the naked cutter for close shaving. I find that the naked cutter delivers closer shaves than does the trimmer with the plastic guide on but I wouldn't say it delivers close shaves

For the most part this trimmer works as described. It does a nice job cleaning and shaping my facial hair. It is a bit noisy. The vacuum system does not get all of the hairs cut. About 25% of the hair falls into the sink. I made sure that I was not covering the air foil on the outsdie. An improvement from my previous trimmer which had no vacuum or storage but not as good as I expected. I also expected to be able to dump the collected hair out but it sticks to a mesh screen inside and must be brushed out.

The vacuum works well and is a great feature!

If you're ready to replace older Norelco ¿ this is a good chose. Same trimmer updated over a years.

Wan't real happy with the product until I removed a spring loaded blue shield from in front of the clippers. Now the product works very well and does what I need it to do.

The catch is great! No more stray hairs all over the sink.

It vacuums up the hairs very nicely. The compartment that holds the hairs is now attached to the unit so that it doesn't accidentally spill its contents. This is a very good improvement over the old model.

I returned this product because the pain of the pinching and the missed hairs. It just did not do the job.

I really want to be fair and objective, but i have to admit, this is the worst trimmer I've ever used, and I've used at least a dozen trimmers in my lifetyle - first the motor charged quickly and fine. i was happy to have received it to trim my beard. - first I noticed the flimsy bag which was shin and would not protect the machine against bumps. the bag is worthless, and probably a step up from a thick ziplock bag but with velcro -i noticed the vacuum and quickly tried the vacuum, which can not be turned off, and the vaccum did not pull all the hair, but maybe 80% of the hair. so in other words, the vaccum doesn't work because even if it cleaned 95%, i would still have to sweep afterwords and after i thought about it, i realized it was a waste and a stupid idea to incorporate a vaccume unless it was running on AC power with about 3AMP power to . -all this was not a big deal to be as the first and the most important to me was a trimmer that did the job, which would be the bulk of the rating. i started running the trimmer first on my arms, which was not nearly as thick as face and noticed it was uneven after two runs. i looked at the timmer and i see the hair just clumped on the contact point where the cutting blades meet the comb. i cleaned it by hand and tried again. and it kept repeating, so the bottom line after every two runs, you have to blow really hard on the comb in order to clean the path. this is non-practical and does not satisfy the purpose for me. i was very dissappointed and still had to pay about 15$ in addition to mail since i had to return it. -also, when using the machine, i noticed i was hitting the power button, or the turbo button accidently as i shave, but i'm sure that's something i would have gotten used to do. all in all this is the worst product ever and if you really buy after reading all this, i'm not sorry for you because you didn't listen and you'll just have to return it. if you REALLY want it, just try it at any store and tell me if you can run it across your beard, or body 4 times without cleaning it. -

Works as advertised. Just note that the trimmer "vaccums" about 80% of the hair. So you're still going to have to clean up the sink a little bit. Nothing is perfect. I do not like the pivoting guard. I find it easier to trim by holding the trimmer such that the pivoting guard does not pivot at all and then move the trimmer against the grain.