In Gateway MX6931 we've found Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66Ghz cpu and in Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI we have a pleasure to find Pentium M740 1.73GHz CPU.
TFT screen on both monitor is 15.4" large.
If you want to run many programs at once 2GB of RAM on this Gateway MX6931 is better than Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI with 0.5GB.
Gateway MX6931 is something lighter with its weight of 2.86kg, comparing to 3kg at other laptop.
Video card in use in Gateway MX6931 is Intel 950 and in Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI is X700.
Gamers might prefer Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI since it seems it has quite better graphic card with 64MB of its memory.
Gateway MX6931 laptop is more suitable with its 160GB hard drive for storing bunch of media information like music and movies.
If you have bluetooth devices if you buy Gateway MX6931 you will need external bluetooth dongle which is not excellent idea.
Infrared is built-in only in Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI.
Only Gateway MX6931 have firewire needed for some camcorders.
PCMCIA useful for some TV card for laptops is built in both laptops.
1Gbit/s internet connection is supportable only by Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI.
Both notebooks have cardreader.
Since screen size on notebooks is always smaller than desktop monitors, DVI output which has Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI is advantage.
Only TravelMate 4602WLMI has TV output.
Advantage of Gateway MX6931 is existance of TV input.
Laptops are able to use standard 54Mbit/s wireless connection.
These notebooks aren't really suitable for video conferencing since they haven't web camera embedded.
Operating system on Gateway MX6931 is XP Media Center and on Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI is XP Home.
Only Gateway MX6931 has special software pack : Works 8.5, Money 2006.
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