Bit of an update on this for those who are interested...
Collected the Note from Tesco last night, first thoughts were fairly positive. It's lightweight and slim, noticeably more so than my ipad3. The different aspect ratio seemed a bit odd after the iPad but tbh the ipad seemed a bit strange to start with so I'd get used to it.
On start my first impression was that not only was the screen resolution lower than my iPad which I'd expected, it was also much lower than other tablets I'd seen.
Second problem I encountered was the s-pen, for some reason it just wouldn't write, I could draw but no matter what I did the text input feature wouldn't work.
Side by side and multiple windows seemed like a revelation at first but you're limited to which apps you can use. I wanted to use Dolphin as my browser but I can't use it in the multiscreen mode, only the standard browser is supported. And again the s-pen text input wouldn't work. So my dream of browsing and taking notes simultaneously didn't work out as I'd hoped.
So then I rang tesco and told them I'd be returning it today, they had no problem with that, even after I'd explained I'd used it etc etc and so I got a full refund this afternoon.
It's a shame because it had the makings of being a really good and fairly unique bit of kit but was let down by some niggly but irritating problems.
At least the Android was better than iOS though so...