Processor in Acer Aspire 3681WXMI is Celeron M410 1.46GHz, and in notebook HP Compaq nx8220 is Pentium M740 1.73GHz.
nx8220 monitor screen with its 15.4 inch we like more than 14.1 inch screen at Aspire 3681WXMI.
The amount of RAM memory was 0.5GB on both laptops.
Both Acer Aspire 3681WXMI and HP Compaq nx8220 laptops have same amount of maximum supportable RAM memory - 2GB.
Both laptops use same RAM memory (DDR2).
Video card inside Aspire 3681WXMI is Intel GMA900 and other laptop has ATI X600 inside.
Graphic card is better on HP Compaq nx8220 with embedded 64MB of memory.
More hard drive space were available at HP Compaq nx8220 (60GB is contast to 40GB).
If you have some bluetooth devices if you buy Acer Aspire 3681WXMI you will need external bluetooth which is not excellent idea.
No infrared.
No firewire unable some camcorders and storage device to attach them to laptops.
Only Acer Aspire 3681WXMI has PCMCIA.
Both laptops have cardreader. At Acer Aspire 3681WXMI it reads 5 different card types and cardreader in HP Compaq nx8220 supports 1 different card types.
They don't have DVI for new TFT monitors.
Both laptops are equipped with 54Mbit/s wireless.
Quite disadvantage of both models is lack of web camera which is needed for Internet telephony.
Operating system on Acer Aspire 3681WXMI is XP Home and on HP Compaq nx8220 is XP Pro.
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