Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi went with Pentium M740 1.73GHz CPU built in, and Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso with Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66Ghz.
Model Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi uses Intel 915GM chipset and model Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi uses Intel 945.
Both TravelMate 4072NWLMi and R40-T500 Cinoso have 15.4" screen size.
To runs many programs at once we've found Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso better with its 1GB of RAM than Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi with 0.5GB. More memory means less swapping.
R40-T500 Cinoso allows maximum 2GB RAM - higher than TravelMate 4072NWLMi (-1GB RAM).
Both Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi and Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso on our test use same type of RAM memory - DDR2.
Travellers should note that Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso is only 2.1kg in weight, but Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi is much heavier with 2.75kg.
Video card inside TravelMate 4072NWLMi is Intel 915GM and other laptop has ATI Mobility 200M inside.
These notebooks use part of main RAM memory for graphic cards.
Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso had more hard drive space (100 GB) - definetly something which users who plan to hold movies on it will certainly like.
Bluetooth isn't available on both of these models and therefore they cannot communicate with some small devices.
Unfortunatly, any of these doesn't have infrared communication embedded which might be significant disadvantage.
These laptops cannot use some camcorders which uses IEEE 1394 (Firewire).
Only Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso has PCMCIA.
Cardreader is inside only Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso.
It is bad that these notebooks cannot be connected to some new TFT monitors since they don't have DVI.
The number of USB ports is 3 on both.
Both notebooks are equipped with stardard 54Mbit/s wireless.
Quite disadvantage of both models is lack of web camera which needs Internet telephony.
Operating system is Linux on Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi and XP Home on Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso.
Only Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso has some additional software : Power DVD XP.
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