The same, Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz processor, is built in both Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546 and Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 notebooks.
We think that Amilo Xi 1546 has better screen with its 17" inch size than Toughbook CF-74 with its 13.3" large screen.
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546 notebook have finer maximum screen resolution(1440x900) than other (1024x768).
If you think you will need more memory then you'll known than 2GB on Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546 is better than 0.5GB on Panasonic Toughbook CF-74.
Toughbook CF-74 allows maximum 2GB RAM - higher than Amilo Xi 1546 (-1GB RAM).
Graphic card in Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546 is ATI Mobility X1800 and in Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 is Intel 915GM.
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546 seems to be better for gamers with 256MB of dedicated video memory.
Mobile phones and cameras nowadays use bluetooth for sharing its multimedia data and they can connect only with Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546 using built in bluetooth connection.
Infrared, which is needed for communication with some mobile phones is available only on Panasonic Toughbook CF-74.
Only Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 have firewire.
Only Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 has PCMCIA.
Note that Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 cannot perform 1Gbit/s connection on fast networks, it will work on those, but with speed of 100Mbit/s.
Cardreader is inside only Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546.
Although if you still have floppy disks you should definetly move them to new technologies, Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 has floppy drive inside.
These notebooks don't have DVI output to allow you to see its screen on bigger modern TFT monitors.
Special adventages of these laptops are : protection on temperatures, touchpad and touchscreen for Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 and for Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546.
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