Central processor unit in Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is Core Duo T2500 2.0GHz, and in notebook Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 is Centrino 753 Ultra Low Voltage 1.2GHz.
Screen size on Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is larger, 15.4 comparing to 10.3 on Panasonic Toughbook CG-18.
If you like higher screen resolutions than you might decide that Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is better with its 1680x1050 than Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 with 1024x768.
For customers whose need more RAM we've found Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI with its 2GB better than 0.5 GB on Panasonic Toughbook CG-18.
Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI supports more maximum amount of RAM (2) than Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 (-1GB).
There are no empty RAM slots on both notebook models.
On both TravelMate 8204WLMI and Toughbook CG-18 models is declared that accumulator allows 4 hours of work using batteries.
Weight of Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 is only 2.1kg, but Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is heavier with 3.6kg.
Video card in use in Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is X1600 and in Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 is Intel 915GMS.
Graphic cards on Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI have own memory (256MB) and therefore mainboard's controller works faster.
Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI had more capacity of hard disk (120GB, comparing to 60GB).
Unfortunatly, owners of these notebooks might have problems for sharing data with their cameras and mobile phones due to lack of embedded bluetooth device.
Infrared isn't built in any laptop.
Firewire, which isn't available on both of these models, unable laptops to use some camcorders.
PCMCIA is available only on Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI and it is needed by some TV cards, external hard drives and external modems.
For some rare location without proper Internet connection, you might need modem which is available in both laptops in this comparison.
Small advantage of Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is built-in cardreader which reads 5 card types.
Floppy drive is embedded in Panasonic Toughbook CG-18, but we see this as disadvantage since floppy disks are unreliable and obsolete.
It is bad that these notebooks cannot be connected to some new monitors since they don't have DVI.
Only TravelMate 8204WLMI has TV output.
Laptops are able to use standard 54Mbit/s wireless .
Operating system on both is XP Pro.
It is worthy to note that Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 has touch pad and touch screen. Also Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI has some important speciality - .
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