mostly good... but
I've had this trimmer for about 1 year now. It doesn't get a lot of use, I only trim about every 1.5-2 weeks (yes, I'm a bit lazy like that). So at most, I've used the trimmer about 35 times. It should work longer and better than that.<br /><br />A few uses ago I went to pull out the little plastic trimmings compartment and the front of the compartment pulled off, leaving the rest inside the unit. It appears that these pieces are just glued together.<br /><br />The second strike is that it doesn't catch about 20% of the trimmed hair, even in Turbo mode. I've tried it trimming very short amounts of hair, or longer. It doesn't seem to matter much.<br /><br />The third strike is that 2-3 times during a trimming I have to remove the trimming guide, and then the blades to remove hair from underneath the blades. I don't see why hair should get trapped under there, but it does and reduces the trimming ability significantly. I don't think I should have to dismantle the trimmer to trim my beard. It's done this since day one.<br /><br />Otherwise, it works pretty well. With some patience and a bit of mess it does a pretty good job at trimming. This is my third Norelco trimmer, none of them seem to have much staying power, my other two had similar clogging issues with the blade, and both had the rechargeable battery die.
Rating: 3 stars