Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A1655G came to us with Turion64 ML32 CPU inside and Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z came to us with Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz central processor inside.
TFT screen on both monitor is 15.4" large.
Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z model we've tested had more RAM (2GB) than Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A1655G (1GB).
The RAM memory in use on both laptops is DDR2.
Graphic is built around ATI Xpress 200M on Amilo A1655G, but graphic on other is built using Nvidia Go 7600.
Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z laptop is more suitable with its 200GB hard drive for storing large amounts of media information like music and movies.
Lack of bluetooth on Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A1655G might mean that you need to buy externall bluetooth dongle for manipulating pictures from handy or camera.
Lack of infrared in any case.
These models have firewire (IEEE 1394) communication device embedded.
PCMCIA isn't built in Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A1655G.
On fast networks (1Gbit/s) laptops will work only 100Mbit/s since their internal network card cannot achieve more.
Both notebooks have cardreader. At Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A1655G it reads 4 different card types and cardreader in Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z supports 1 different card types.
It is bad that these laptops cannot be connected to some new TFT monitors since they don't have DVI.
Web camera is built in Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z (the another notebook hasn't it) and it is useful for video conferencing.
Operating system on Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A1655G is XP Home and on Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z is XP Media Center.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z has special software pack : Adobe Acrobat Elements 7.0, Works, Photshop Elements, DV Gate Plus, WinDVD, Roxio Digital Media SE7, Norton Internet Security 2006, Skype 2,0.
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