Processor in Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi is Celeron M389 1.6GHz and in BenQ S53W.G01 is Pentium M750 1.86GHz.
Screen size on Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi is larger, 15.4 comparing to 13 on BenQ S53W.G01.
More RAM on BenQ S53W.G01 means less swapping on hard drive. S53W.G01 had 0.5GB. Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi had only 0.25GB of RAM which might not suit users who wants to run many programs at once.
Both notebooks use same RAM memory (DDR2).
BenQ S53W.G01 weights 2.15kg, but Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi isn't really suitable for travellers with its 2.7kg.
More storage for multimedia were available at BenQ S53W.G01 (more conforable space on hard disk).
If you need bluetooth don't forget the fact that it is available only at BenQ S53W.G01 laptop.
Infrared connection has only BenQ S53W.G01.
Firewire (IEEE 1394) isn't built in Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi.
These laptops cannot use some PCMCIA equipment (usually some types of external hard drives and TV cards).
Cardreader is inside only BenQ S53W.G01.
It is bad that these laptops cannot be connected to some new TFT monitors since they don't have DVI.
There are no web camera in notebooks which is bad for video conferencing and Internet telephony.
TravelMate 2414NWLMi drives Linux and S53W.G01 drives XP Home operating system.
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