Processor in Asus Z 9266 VA is Pentium M760 2.0GHz, and in laptop HP Pavilion dv9056ea is Turion X2 Dual 1.6GHz.
Screen size at HP Pavilion dv9056ea is quite larger with its 17" than Asus Z 9266 VA with its 15.4".
Maximum screen resulution on HP Pavilion dv9056ea is 1440x900, which might prefer graphic experts rather than 1280x800 on Asus Z 9266 VA.
HP Pavilion dv9056ea model we've tested had more RAM (2GB) than Asus Z 9266 VA (1GB).
Z 9266 VA allows maximum 2GB RAM - higher than Pavilion dv9056ea (-1GB RAM).
Graphic card inside Z 9266 VA is ATI Mobility Radeon X700 and other laptop uses Nvidia Go 7600.
HP Pavilion dv9056ea had more storage for multimedia files (like mp3, avi) on its hard disk.
Bluetooth exists only on HP Pavilion dv9056ea model and you might need it for pictures on camera or mobile phone.
Infrared isn't built in Asus Z 9266 VA, which is slightly disadvantage.
Only HP Pavilion dv9056ea have firewire.
There are no PCMCIA on HP Pavilion dv9056ea.
Internal modem is available in both models and you will need it on some location without proper Internet connection.
Only model Pavilion dv9056ea have cardreader inside.
These laptops don't have DVI output to allow you to see screen on bigger modern TFT monitors.
Advantage of HP Pavilion dv9056ea is existance of TV output.
Laptops are able to use standard 54Mbit/s wireless .
The lack of webcamera in both models makes them bad in video conferencing.
Both came with XP Home operating system .
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