do not buy it for the vacuum [SEP] this popped up in my gold box and i decided to give it a whirl since the idea of trimming my beard with no mess had a lot of appeal the vacuum does half work unfortunately catching half the mess will not change the need for clean up there is less to clean but you will still need to do it so my main recommendation is that you should not let the vacuum feature be your reason for buying this if anything it is a slight negative because the opening for the vacuum gets in the way when you are doing edge trimming without the attachmentthe next down side is the memory rechargeable batteries basically unless you let the batteries completely discharge before recharging they will hold less and less charge each time this is mentioned in the folded up piece of paper that passes for a manual you will want to read through that which leads me to my final gripe that piece of paper is extremely poorly done diagrams with no explaination unclear instructions etc so you do have to read it but you are going to spend some time trying to puzzle it out before you actually figure it outfor all my complaining the trimmer is not completely without merit it does do a decent job of trimming my beard which is of course the main point of the thing i also did not have any real noise complaints which seems to be an issue for other reviewerson balance though my main recommendation would be do not pay for the vacuum because you will not be getting what you paid for