posted: Aug. 25, 2008 @ 7:10a
I have the MS-5100. Great price and gives a great shave. Some caveats however...
* Very loud. Loud enough to wake up my wife.
* Messy. It does not hold the shavings like other electrics do. The shavings are a very fine powder, and I would wear a t-shirt when shaving to keep them off my body. Don't even THINK about shaving in the car unless you have a dirty job.
* The cutters are held in place with a spring, don't lose when you take it out to do a thorough cleaning. Replacement cutters don't include the spring.
* It doesn't shave as well after a four day weekend (for me lots of stubble), as my rotarty Remingtons.
I tend to shave in the car or at work pretty often, so I don't use this as much as when I got it. If you shave daily or every other day it will give you a shave like a razor, and my stubble is bad and fast growing.
BTW, green for OP just because electric shaving is very "green." Less energy consuption than shaving in the shower or with running hot tap water, no landfill waste from disposable blade heads (I change cutters yearly), stubble can be shaken into a cup and sprinkled in your garden or on your lawn, and the machine itself will last for years, amortizing the impact from manufacturing it over a very long time.