Charger included
OS: windows 10 home 32bit
Samsung RV511-A01 offers a great blend of features, style, and performance for its low price. The laptop has plenty of multitasking power and has enough staying power to work and play for nearly 5 hours on a charge. We also like the spacious keyboard and responsive touchpad, and WiDi is a nice bonus. While we wish it ran a little cooler on the bottom, those looking for an attractive yet affordable notebook for home use will really enjoy the RV511.
Encased in silvery plastic, the 15.6-inch Samsung RV511 has a clean metallic look. The laptop's lid sports a finely ribbed surface with horizontal lines running across it. This washboard-like treatment is both attractive and defeats fingerprints. (Slight digression: The lid is also fun to scratch like you're a DJ.) Measuring 15 x 10 x 1.4 inches and weighing 5.4 pounds, the RV511 is easy to move from room to room and light enough to take on short trips.
Opening the notebook reveals the same smooth, pleasing, silver hue, paried with a glossy black center area that houses the keyboard. Two stereo speakers sit hidden within a slim rectangular grille located above the keyboard, and to the right of that is a large circular power button, ringed by cool blue light. The only indication of the laptop's low price is its bland black plastic underside, but even that area looks cleaner than other notebooks. Bottom line: Samsung knows design.
The Samsung RV511's 15.6-inch widescreen has a standard resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, sharp enough to display 720p HD video. We wish the viewing anglers were wider, but this panel is certainly fine for the price.
When we streamed the HD trailer of Green Lantern, hues were well saturated and contrast high with deep black levels.The RV511 has the standard array of ports for a mainstream machine. On the laptop's left are two USB ports, HDMI, a 4-in-1 media card reader, Ethernet, and headphone and microphone jacks. On the left side sits the Super Multi Drive to burn DVDs and CDs, an additional USB connection, plus a Kensington lock slot.
Above the screen is the RV511's 0.3 megapixel Webcam. The image quality for both video chats and still shots was about average; recorded footage was bright enough but blocky. However, the camera waked up and captured pics quickly.
Proving it has a good amount of stamina, the Samsung RV511's 6-cell battery persevered for a long 4 hours and 50 minutes on the LAPTOP Battery Test (continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi). That's 41 minutes beyond the category average of 4:09 and longer than the Aspire 5742 (3:11) and MSI CR650 (4:38).
Using an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6250 AGN radio, the RV511 turned in a mixed wireless performance. The laptop attained an average data throughput of 35.1 Mbps at a distance of 15 feet. At 50 feet, data speeds dropped to 17.7 Mbps. The first score is in line with the category average (35.3 Mbps), but the latter is below average (21 Mbps).
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