Review (3/5): Barely Passes OK, T6000 was better.
I've used the T6000 (the original trimmer) for 5 years and loved it until the battery crocked. I've been using it on the wire since, but then decided to upgrade. My first reaction about the T970:
BAD:
* Plastic is VERY flimsy - it doesn't have that tough look.
* Lots of movable parts, which have very flimsy plastic hinges (I think I'll break them soon)
* Not as compact as the original T6000 (Nape trimmer doesn't extend from inside but is rather a separate attachment)
* AcuVac is junk - it doesn't catch all the hairs but most of them. (The trimmer is very loud because of the AcuVac.)
* The little brush needs to be longer - it doesn't reach some of the parts where hairs stick, like the AcuVac containers bottom leaving me having to blow the hairs out - which land literally all over the place making me wonder why I bothered with the AcuVac in the first place.
* Travel case needs to be more compact a made of tougher nilon, the charger alone is HUGE! T6000 had compartments for the Brush and the wire, snugly fitting together. I'm afraid the pivoting head on the T790 will break off the first time I put the trimmer into my travel bag.
GOOD
* The pivoting head actually helps in raising hairs to get a more even shave, leaving hair softer (a feature I've lived without for 5 years, and think can go without a little further)
* Charge Indicator is pretty cool.
I bought it because it is the most expensive trimmer on the market, thinking PRICE=QUALITY, boy was I wrong, but with Amazon's special @ $43+change my girlfriend will have something to use to trim her poodle.