Acer TravelMate 4202WLMI went with Core Duo T2300 1.6GHz processor built in, and Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI with Core Duo T2500 2.0GHz.
TFT screen on both monitor is 15.4" large.
Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI notebook have finer maximum screen resolution(1680x1050) than other (1280x800).
Although memory could easily be expanded, 2GB on TravelMate 8204WLMI versus 0.5GB on TravelMate 4202WLMI might be significant difference.
Both Acer TravelMate 4202WLMI and Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI on our test had same amount of maximum RAM memory they can support - 2GB.
Duration time on accumulator on Acer TravelMate 4202WLMI and Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is the same - 3 hours.
TravelMate 4202WLMI is significantly lighter with its 3kg weight, than TravelMate 8204WLMI with 3.6kg.
Video card in use in Acer TravelMate 4202WLMI is Intel 950 and in Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is X1600.
Gamers might prefer Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI since it seems it has better graphic card with 256MB of its memory.
More hard drive space were at Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI (120GB is contast to 80GB).
We dislike the fact that bluetooth isn't available on these laptop models.
These laptops have disadvantage of communication with some infrared devices like some models of mobile phones.
These laptops cannot use some camcorders and some storage devices which uses IEEE 1394 (Firewire).
Both laptops have PCMCIA which allows to connect some TV cards for laptops.
Very fast internet connection (1Gbit/s) supports only Acer TravelMate 4202WLMI.
Cardreader is inside both laptops.
They don't have DVI for new LCD monitors.
TV output exists on both.
Both notebooks are equipped with 54Mbit/s wireless.
These laptops aren't very good for Internet telephony because they haven't web camera.
Operating system is XP Pro.
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