Laptop Gateway MX3414 has Turion X2 Dual 1.6GHz CPU inside and laptop Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi has Pentium M740 1.73GHz CPU.
We've found 15.4" monitor size on TravelMate 4072NWLMi quite better than 14.1" at MX3414.
More RAM means less swapping when you run many programs at once and therefore Gateway MX3414 with 1GB RAM is better choise than Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi with 0.5GB.
With maximum 2GB of RAM it can support Gateway MX3414 can feel a bit more proud than Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi.
Both laptops use same RAM memory (DDR2).
We could say that Gateway MX3414 is less in weight with its 2.4kg, comparing to 2.75kg which .
Video card in use in Gateway MX3414 is Nvidia Go 6100 and in Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi is Intel 915GM.
Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi uses up to 64MB of main RAM memory for video card - other laptop up to 128MB.
Gateway MX3414 had more capacity of hard drive (100GB, comparing to 80GB).
Lack of bluetooth on Gateway MX3414 might mean that you need to buy externall bluetooth device for manipulating pictures from mobile phone or camera.
Infrared is missing on Gateway MX3414.
These laptops cannot use some camcorders and some storage devices which uses IEEE 1394 (Firewire).
PCMCIA isn't built in Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi.
Cardreader is inside only Gateway MX3414.
None has DVI output so you cannot connect them to some new monitors.
The number of USB ports is 3 on both.
There are no web camera in both laptops which is bad for video conferencing and Internet telephony.
Operating system is XP Media Center on Gateway MX3414 and Linux on Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi.
Only Gateway MX3414 has some additional software : Works 8.5, Money 2006.
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