Acer Aspire 3681WXMI vs Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 notebooks review

Central processor unit on our Acer Aspire 3681WXMI we've tested was Celeron M410 1.46GHz, and on Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 was Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz. We like more Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 17" inch screen than Acer Aspire 3681WXMI's 14.1" size. Maximum declared screen resolution on Qosmio G35-AV660 (1920x1200) beats Aspire 3681WXMI (1280x800). To runs many programs at once we've found Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 better with its 2GB of RAM than Acer Aspire 3681WXMI with 0.5GB. More memory means less swapping. Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 supports more maximum amount of RAM (4) than Acer Aspire 3681WXMI (2GB). The RAM memory in use on both laptops is DDR2.

Acer Aspire 3681WXMI weights 2.35kg, but Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 isn't really suitable for travellers with 4.58kg. Video card inside Aspire 3681WXMI is Intel GMA900 and other laptop has Nvidia Go 7600 inside. Gamers might prefer Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 since it seems it has quite better graphic card with 256MB of its memory. Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 had more hard drive space (240 GB) - definetly something which users who have habbit hold movies on it will like.

These laptops cannot communicate with some devices like mobile phones and digital cameras without external bluetooth dongles since they don't have bluetooth built-in. Infrared isn't built in any laptop. Only Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 have firewire. Both laptops have PCMCIA which allows to connect some TV cards for laptops. Note that Acer Aspire 3681WXMI cannot perform 1Gbit/s connection on fast networks, it will work on those, but with speed of 100Mbit/s. These laptops have cardreader inside (5 different card types can read). They don't have DVI for new TFT monitors. Only Qosmio G35-AV660 has TV output. Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 only has TV input. These laptops aren't really good for Internet telephony since they haven't web camera.

Aspire 3681WXMI drives XP Home and Qosmio G35-AV660 drives XP Media Center operating system. Only Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 has some additional software : Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Works 8.5. Special adventages of these notebooks are : Fingerprint reader for Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 and for Acer Aspire 3681WXMI.

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