Laptop Gateway MX6912 has Core Duo T2300E 1.66GHz central processor unit inside and laptop Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI has Core Duo T2500 2.0GHz CPU.
On both models screen size is 15.4".
For users who likes more memory Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI with 2GB is better than Gateway MX6912 with 1GB of memory.
Travellers might find Gateway MX6912 more suitable with its weight of 2.86kg comparing to Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI with 3.6kg.
Video card in use in Gateway MX6912 is Intel 950 and in Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is X1600.
Gamers might prefer Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI since it seems it has quite better graphic card with 256MB of its memory.
Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI had more capacity of hard drive (120GB, comparing to 100GB).
Rotating speed of hard drives are the same - 5400 rpm.
If you need bluetooth don't forget that it is available only at Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI .
Infrared isn't built in Gateway MX6912, which is slightly disadvantage.
No firewire on Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI unable them to connect to some camcorders.
These laptops are unable to have fast internet connection, so maximum LAN speed they run is 100Mbit/s.
Cardreaders are inside both of these laptops.
These laptops don't have DVI output to allow you to see its screen on bigger modern TFT monitors.
Advantage of Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is existance of TV output.
Both notebooks have 4 USB ports each.
The lack of webcamera in both models makes them bad in video conferencing.
Operating system is XP Home on Gateway MX6912 and XP Pro on Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI.
Only Gateway MX6912 has some additional software : Works 8.5, Money 2006.
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