In Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI we've found Pentium M740 1.73GHz cpu and in Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 we have a pleasure to find Centrino 753 Ultra Low Voltage 1.2GHz CPU.
We like more Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI 15.4" inch screen than Panasonic Toughbook CG-18's 10.3" size.
Maximum declared screen resolution on TravelMate 4602WLMI (1280x768) beats Toughbook CG-18 (1024x768).
The amount of RAM memory was 0.5GB on both laptops.
TravelMate 4602WLMI allows maximum 2GB RAM - higher than Toughbook CG-18 (-1GB RAM).
Number of free RAM slots is higher on TravelMate 4602WLMI - 1.
Duration time on accumulator on Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI and Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 is the same - 4 hours.
Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 weights 2.1kg, but Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI is less suitable for travellers with 3kg.
Video card in use in Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI is X700 and in Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 is Intel 915GMS.
Graphic cards on Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI have its own memory (64MB) and therefore mainboard's memory controller works faster.
More storage for multimedia (mpeg, avi) were available at Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI (more space on hard drive).
Unfortunatly, any of these doesn't have bluetooth device embedded which might be significant disadvantage.
Infrared isn't available on both models and therefore they cannot communicate with some small devices.
No built-in firewire so you cannot attach some camcorder and some other video equipment on these laptops.
PCMCIA on Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 unable them to connect to some TV cards for laptops.
Very fast internet connection (1Gbit/s) supports only Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI.
Only Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI have cardreader inside.
Floppy drive is embedded in Panasonic Toughbook CG-18, but we see this as disadvantage since floppy disks are unreliable and obsolete.
Presence of DVI allows you to connect Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI to modern TFT monitors.
Advantage of Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI is existance of TV output.
Each laptop has 54Mbit/s wireless
These laptops aren't really suitable for video conferencing since they haven't web camera inside.
Operating system on TravelMate 4602WLMI is XP Home and on Toughbook CG-18 is XP Pro.
Notable advantages of these laptops are : touch pad and touch screen for Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 and for Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI.
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