CPU in Gateway MX6448 is Turion X2 Dual 1.6GHz, and in laptop Acer Travelmate 2312LM is Celeron M360 1.4GHz.
MX6448 monitor screen with its 15.4 inch we like more than 15 inch screen at Travelmate 2312LM.
If you want to run many programs at once 1GB of RAM on this Gateway MX6448 is better than Acer Travelmate 2312LM with 0.25GB.
2GB is maximum supportable RAM memory on both notebooks
The RAM memory in use on both laptops is DDR2.
Video card in use in Gateway MX6448 is ATI XPRESS 1150 and in Acer Travelmate 2312LM is i852GM DVMT.
These notebooks don't contain dedicated RAM for graphic cards, they use part of main memory for their graphic cards.
Gateway MX6448 had more capacity of hard disk (120GB, comparing to 40GB).
Mobile phones and cameras tends to use bluetooth for sharing its multimedia data and they can connect only with Acer Travelmate 2312LM using built in bluetooth connection.
If you have infrared enabled devices if you buy Gateway MX6448 you won't be enabled to communicate with them.
Firewire (IEEE 1394) isn't built in Acer Travelmate 2312LM.
Gateway MX6448 has cardreader which reads 4 different card types.
None has DVI output so you cannot connect them to some new monitors.
Wireless become quite at many places like hotels, cafes, flats and big disadvantage of Acer Travelmate 2312LM is the fact that it hasn't internal wireless adapter.
The lack of webcamera in both models makes them bad in video conferencing.
Operating system is XP Media Center on Gateway MX6448 and none on Acer Travelmate 2312LM.
Only Gateway MX6448 has some additional software : Works 8.5, Money 2006.
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