Its screen has a large work area with great clarity and quality.

The back of the screen is a very nice looking smooth metallic brushed aluminum.-Haven't tested the built-in speakers too much but there is a rather large one running along the width of the keyboard under the screen, and it gets pretty loud.

_the 1080p display sometimes make the worlds really small, but i proffer it this way, but if you don't like this just set the resolution to 900p.

1080p, 1920 x 1080 resolution screen is gorgeous and great for multitasking.

Also, the notebook comes with a 'driver DVD' also to my surprise, which I had fully expected all the drivers installed to be up-to-date, being this release is relativity new (7/2011) product mfg updates, and comes fully configured as Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1 - Intel Core i7-2670QM CPU 2.20 GHz, 8GB RAM (maximum) 64-bit Operating System - Activated, upon final setup, from the properties of OS (C:) screen.

I'm running AVID Media Composer 5.5 on it, and it runs better and smoother than on the gigantic, quad Xeon 2.66 GHz Cr-Apple tower they have me on at work, and that thing even has dedicated video hardware and isn't that old!

_quad-core processor and 8 GB of RAM is more than enough for every use of the laptop.

The Intel 2nd 2360QM Quad-Core 2GHz 6MB L3 Cache processor in this performs just as well as you would think: fantastic.

This laptop is fast, especially with the i7 and 8gb of ram and does what is promised.

I added an additional 4GB RAM to my machine and only have 8GB of RAM now :-) This computer has a full key board with a number pad.