Laptop Acer Travelmate 2312LM has Celeron M360 1.4GHz central processor unit inside and notebook Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z has Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz CPU.
We prefere 15.4 inch wide screen size at model Vaio VGN-FE31Z than 15 built at model Travelmate 2312LM.
If you like higher screen resolutions than you might decide that Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z is better with its 1280x800 than Acer Travelmate 2312LM with 1024x768.
For customers whose need more RAM we've found Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z with its 2GB better than 0.25 GB on Acer Travelmate 2312LM.
Video card in use in Acer Travelmate 2312LM is i852GM DVMT and in Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z is Nvidia Go 7600.
Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z had more hard drive space (200 GB) - definetly something which users who have habbit hold movies on it will like.
Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z has faster hard disk (with 5400rpm).
Bluetooth connection, useful for sharing multimedia data with cameras , is available only on Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z.
Unfortunatly, any of these doesn't have infrared communication embedded which might be significant disadvantage.
No firewire connection on model Acer Travelmate 2312LM.
Both laptops have built-in modem which you need somewhere where broadband internet isn't available.
Note that no one is able to take advantage of fast internet connections (1Gbit/s).
Only model Vaio VGN-FE31Z have cardreader inside.
Disadvantage of both is lack of DVI output for connection to some modern TFT monitors.
Wireless become quite at many places like hotels, flats and big disadvantage of Acer Travelmate 2312LM is the fact that it hasn't internal wireless adapter.
Web camera is built in Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z (the another notebook hasn't it) and that is useful for video conferencing.
Operating system on Acer Travelmate 2312LM is none and on Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z is XP Media Center.
There are additional software only on Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z and it is Adobe Acrobat Elements 7.0, Works, Photshop Elements, DV Gate Plus, WinDVD, Roxio Digital Media SE7, Norton Internet Security 2006, Skype 2,0.
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