CPU in Acer Travelmate 2312LM is Celeron M360 1.4GHz, and in laptop Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 is Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz.
We've found 15" monitor size on Travelmate 2312LM quite better than 13.3" at Toughbook CF-74.
Both notebooks have maximum declared screen resolution 1024x768.
For users who likes more memory Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 with 0.5GB is better than Acer Travelmate 2312LM with 0.25GB of memory.
Both Acer Travelmate 2312LM and Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 on our test use same type of RAM memory - DDR2.
Graphic card inside Travelmate 2312LM is i852GM DVMT and other laptop uses Intel 915GM.
Video cards uses memory from mainboard, up to 64MB.
More storage for multimedia (mpeg, avi) were available at Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 (more conforable space on hard drive).
Unfortunatly, any of these doesn't have bluetooth device embedded which might be significant disadvantage.
Unfortunatly, any of these doesn't have infrared communication embedded which might be significant disadvantage.
No built-in firewire so you cannot attach some camcorder on these laptops.
No PCMCIA on model Panasonic Toughbook CF-74. It is needed by some TV cards for laptops.
There are internal modem in both models.
Although if you still have floppy disks you should definetly move them to new technologies, Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 has floppy drive inside.
They don't have DVI for new LCD monitors.
There are no internal wireless adapter in Acer Travelmate 2312LM and therefore you cannot use wireless with it at many places like some hotels, cafes, etc.
Quite disadvantage of both models is lack of web camera which is needed for Internet telephony.
Operating system on Acer Travelmate 2312LM is none and on Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 is XP Pro.
It is worthy to note that Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 has protection on temperatures, touchpad and touchscreen. Also Acer Travelmate 2312LM has some notable speciality - .
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