Central processor unit in Gateway MX6455 is Turion64 2.0GHz, and in laptop Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is Core Duo T2500 2.0GHz.
Both MX6455 and TravelMate 8204WLMI have 15.4" screen size.
More RAM means less swapping when you run many programs at once and therefore Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI with 2GB RAM is better choise than Gateway MX6455 with 1GB.
The RAM memory in use on both laptops is DDR2.
Gateway MX6455 weights 2.9kg, but Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is less suitable for travellers with its 3.6kg.
Graphic is built around ATI X300 on MX6455, but graphic on other is X1600.
We like that video card on Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI have own video memory (256MB) and therefore its faster since it doesn't use main memory and mainboard controller is less loaded.
Capacity on hard drives were 120GB.
Fast hard disk (5400 rpm) on Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI beats another model.
Disadvantage of Gateway MX6455 is lack of bluetooth which you might need for some mobile devices and cameras.
Gateway MX6455 have lack of infrared device.
There are no firewire built-in on Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI.
If you sometimes travel to destination without broadband internet connection, you don't have to worry since laptops have internal modems.
Unfortunatly, these notebooks don't support fast network of 1Gbit/s.
These notebooks have cardreaders inside them.
It is bad that these notebooks cannot be connected to some new TFT monitors since they don't have DVI.
Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI only has TV output.
The number of USB ports is 4 on both.
Laptops are able to use standard 54Mbit/s wireless connection.
The lack of webcamera in both models makes them bad in video conferencing.
MX6455 drives XP Media Center and TravelMate 8204WLMI drives XP Pro operating system.
Only Gateway MX6455 has some additional software : Works 8.5, Money 2006.
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