In Acer Aspire 3681WXMI we've found Celeron M410 1.46GHz cpu and in Acer Travelmate 2312LM we have a pleasure to find Celeron M360 1.4GHz CPU.
Monitor in Acer Travelmate 2312LM is 15" size, better than 14.1" screen in Acer Aspire 3681WXMI.
Acer Aspire 3681WXMI notebook has better maximum screen resolution - 1280x800, in contrast to 1024x768 at Acer Travelmate 2312LM.
Acer Aspire 3681WXMI came with more RAM memory - 0.5GB comparing to 0.25GB on Acer Travelmate 2312LM.
Video card in use in Acer Aspire 3681WXMI is Intel GMA900 and in Acer Travelmate 2312LM is i852GM DVMT.
Video cards on both notebooks uses 64MB of shared RAM from mainboard.
Each laptop contained 40GB of storage on its hard disks.
Fast hard disk (5400 rpm) on Acer Aspire 3681WXMI beats another model.
These laptops cannot communicate with some devices like mobile phones and digital cameras without external bluetooth dongles because they don't have bluetooth built-in.
Unfortunatly, any of these doesn't have infrared communication embedded which might be significant disadvantage.
Lack of firewire is disadvantage.
For some rare location without proper Internet connection, you might need modem which is available in both laptops in this rating.
They do not supports fast internet connection (1Gbit/s).
Small advantage of Acer Aspire 3681WXMI is built-in cardreader which reads 5 card types.
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.
The lack of webcamera in both models makes them bad in video conferencing.
Operating system is XP Home on Acer Aspire 3681WXMI and none on Acer Travelmate 2312LM.
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