Laptop Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI uses Core Duo T2500 2.0GHz central processor unit, and notebook Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI uses Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz CPU.
We prefere 15.4 inch wide screen size at model TravelMate 8204WLMI than 13.3 built at model Toughbook CF-74.
Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI notebook has better maximum screen resolution - 1680x1050, in contrast to 1024x768 at Panasonic Toughbook CF-74.
More RAM on Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI means less swapping on hard drive. TravelMate 8204WLMI had 2GB. Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 had only 0.5GB of RAM which might not suit users who wants to run many programs at once.
2GB is maximum supportable RAM memory on both notebooks
The RAM memory in use on both laptops is DDR2.
Around 4 is duration of accumulators built in both Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI and Panasonic Toughbook CF-74.
Graphic card inside TravelMate 8204WLMI is X1600 and other laptop uses Intel 915GM.
Gamers might prefer Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI since it seems it has better graphic card with 256MB of its memory.
Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI had more hard drive space (120 GB) - definetly something which users who have habbit hold movies on it will like.
We dislike the fact that bluetooth isn't available on these laptop models.
Keep in mind that these models don't have infrared device built-in.
No firewire (IEEE 1394).
PCMCIA isn't built in Panasonic Toughbook CF-74.
Small advantage of Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is built-in cardreader which reads 5 card types.
Although if you still have floppy disks you should definetly move them to new technologies, Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 has floppy drive inside.
These laptops don't have DVI output to allow you to see screen on some bigger modern monitors.
Only TravelMate 8204WLMI has TV output.
The lack of webcamera in both models makes them bad in video conferencing.
Both of these laptops came with XP Pro operating system.
It is worthy to note that Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 has protection on temperatures, touchpad and touchscreen. Also Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI has some notable speciality - .
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