CPU in Asus Z 9274 VM is Pentium M745 1.8GHz and in HP Pavilion dv9056ea is Turion X2 Dual 1.6GHz.
We think 17 inch screen at Pavilion dv9056ea is better than 15.4 inch screen wide at Z 9274 VM.
Maximum declared screen resolution on Pavilion dv9056ea (1440x900) beats Z 9274 VM (1280x800).
If you want to run many programs at once 2GB of RAM on this HP Pavilion dv9056ea is better than Asus Z 9274 VM with 1GB.
Asus Z 9274 VM supports more maximum amount of RAM (2) than HP Pavilion dv9056ea (-1GB).
Video card in use in Asus Z 9274 VM is Nvidia Geforce 7300 and in HP Pavilion dv9056ea is Nvidia Go 7600.
HP Pavilion dv9056ea had more capacity of hard drive (120GB, comparing to 100GB).
Disadvantage of Asus Z 9274 VM is lack of bluetooth connection which you might need for some mobile phones and cameras.
Infrared, which is needed for communication with some mobile phones is available only on HP Pavilion dv9056ea.
Only Asus Z 9274 VM has PCMCIA.
For some rare location without proper Internet connection, you might need modem which is available in both laptops in this comparison.
Cardreader is inside only HP Pavilion dv9056ea.
They don't have DVI for new LCD monitors.
TV output exists on both.
Laptops are able to use standard 54Mbit/s wireless connection.
There are no web camera in both laptops which makes them bad for video conferencing .
Both of these came with XP Home operating system.
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