Gillette M3 Power Nitro Razor
Review by J. Flood : Night and day over a regular mach shaver.

Huge improvement over a regular mach shaver. I use the regular mach blades instead of the newer more expensive ones and get a close comfortable shave every time. The older blades seem to last longer and the battery never seems to run out on this.

Update-August 2009 - 3 STARS for the handle. 5 STARS for the BLADES. I still really like the shave I get with these blades and the power handle. My problem is the quality of the handle has gone way down. My first one lasted forever. I left it at a hotel and figured I'd just buy a new one. The two replacements I've gotten both stopped vibrating within months. The first just stopped. The second seemed to have some leakage. I'll try one more since I don't want to get sucked into the fusion hype and expense.

Gillette M3 Power Nitro Razor
Review by Kristina "Around the World in 80 Years!" : Fabulous!

My boyfriend has this razor and I am going to steal it because it is amazing! As the previous reviewer described, no pain or cuts; the smoothest shave one can get! I'm not sure if they have a women's version, but it really doesn't matter because they are always the same-just pink (how stupid). I thought the vibration would be a problem but it works wonders!

A great product!

Gillette M3 Power Nitro Razor
Review by Timothy Takemoto : Better yet than super (S-bend) Mach 3, and not as expensive as the Fushion

This is the sort of product that is so well designed that I want to go out and purchase one for all my friends.

I have been a long time fan of "Mach 3" razors. Having used disposable razors for the first 15 years of my shaving life, I was forced to purchased a Mach 3 since no disposable razors happened to be available.

I was surprised to find that the metal handle, and above all the fact that it has a sort of s-bend curve before the blade attachment makes for a very dynamically-stable shave.

The s-curve at the end of the Mach 3, which somehow effects the way that force is applied, rather than the fact that it has 3 rather blades, justifies for me the extra extra expense compared to disposable razors.

To this the "M3 Power" adds an in-handle vibrator which makes one sweep of the blade that much more effective, requiring less sweeps and a shorter sweep to cut which is especially useful on the top lip, and produces a closer barber-shop-feel shave. The thicker handle is not so thick as to be uncomfortable to hold. The battery lasts a long time (the packaging says 2 to 4 months). The blades last a long time - at least week on average I would say.

I hear that the 5-blade "Gilette Fusion" (and Gillette Fusion Power) may have an even better shave but the price of the blades, the difficulty of shaving your top lip due to the width of the blade attachment, the difficulty of cleaning due to the closer blade alignment, and the lack of blade durability means that the Mach 3 Power, will remain my choice of shave.

The packaging of the Mach 3 and M3 Power blades intimate, by exclusion, that only the latter will work on the M3 Power handle. But this does not seem to be the case. My old Mach 3 blades at least click to fit the new M3 power handle. I can see no important difference. Unless I notice something about the shave that is not apparent from a visual inspection of the blades, I think I will be using Mach 3 blades on a M3 Power body..........