Central processor unit in Acer Travelmate 2312LM is Celeron M360 1.4GHz and in Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is Core Duo T2500 2.0GHz.
Monitor in Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is 15.4" size, better than 15" screen in Acer Travelmate 2312LM.
Graphic professionals might find Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI model with its 1680x1050 maximum screen resulution more preferable.
For customers whose need more RAM we've found Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI with its 2GB better than 0.25 GB on Acer Travelmate 2312LM.
2GB is maximum supportable RAM memory on both notebooks
On both laptops in use is DDR2 memory.
Graphic card in use in Acer Travelmate 2312LM is i852GM DVMT and in Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is X1600.
Graphic cards on Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI have own memory (256MB) and therefore mainboard's memory controller works faster.
More hard disk space were available at Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI (120GB is contast to 40GB).
Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI should load programs for hard disk faster with its 5400rpm fast disk.
Bluetooth, which is low power air connection, isn't available on both laptops, and that might be quite disadvantage.
Unfortunatly, any of these doesn't have infrared communication embedded which might be significant disadvantage.
These laptops cannot use some camcorders and some storage devices which uses IEEE 1394 (Firewire).
These notebooks are unable to have fast internet , so maximum LAN speed they run is 100Mbit/s.
Cardreader is inside only Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI.
It is bad that these notebooks cannot be connected to some new LCD monitors since they don't have DVI.
Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI only has TV output.
Big disadvantage of Acer Travelmate 2312LM is lack of internal wireless which is quite useful nowadays at work, at home, some cafes and many other places.
Internet telephony is better with web camera but these laptops hasn't one inside.
Operating system on Acer Travelmate 2312LM is none and on Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is XP Pro.
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