I received the RF511 this morning and I have to say that Amazon's service has been brilliant in that they dispatched this via next day after my initial RF511 order went walkies in the West Midlands, courtesy of CityLink.

First impressions on this laptop are mixed. To start with the good: the i5/8GB/1TB spec is reasonably fast, it's handled everything I've thrown at it without a hiccup thus far. This includes 1080p HD, processing RAW files in LightRoom and, even though I didn't buy this laptop for gaming, The Sims 3 - which the HD3000 integrated graphics did a decent job with on high settings.

On that note however, the fan does like to spin-up a bit in LightRoom and when I took The Sims 3 for a spin, things got hot, 80*C hot. Otherwise, the RF511 stays quiet and cool. I've generally noticed it hovering around 30-40*C in SpeedFan on general internet/music/Microsoft Word use.

What I will say is that Samsung's "superior LCD screen" is anything but. It has a washed out appearance and oddly the image deteriorates left-to-right, top-to-bottom whilst sitting straight on, despite good viewing angles. The slightest shift will make one part of the picture hazy under the backlight whilst giving deeper colours to another part. Very odd.

Coupled with this, the RF511 sucumbs to the stereotype of lapptops having poor speakers whilst my previous Lenovo E520 packed speakers which sounded 'full-bodied'. Why can't a