Both Gateway MX3414 and HP Pavilion dv9056ea had Turion X2 Dual 1.6GHz cpu unit inside.
Pavilion dv9056ea monitor screen with its 17 inch we like more than 14.1 inch screen at MX3414.
More RAM on HP Pavilion dv9056ea means less swapping on hard drive. Pavilion dv9056ea had 2GB. Gateway MX3414 had only 1GB of RAM which might not suit users who wants to run many programs at once.
Gateway MX3414 supports more maximum amount of RAM (2) than HP Pavilion dv9056ea (-1GB).
Both Gateway MX3414 and HP Pavilion dv9056ea on our test use same type of RAM memory - DDR2.
Video card inside MX3414 is Nvidia Go 6100 and other laptop has Nvidia Go 7600 inside.
More hard disk space were available at HP Pavilion dv9056ea (120GB is contast to 100GB).
Disadvantage of Gateway MX3414 is lack of bluetooth device which you might need for some mobile devices and cameras.
Infrared connection has only HP Pavilion dv9056ea.
There are firewire built-in only on HP Pavilion dv9056ea.
PCMCIA is available only on Gateway MX3414 and it is needed by some TV cards, external hard drives and external modems.
Internal modem is available in both models which you will need it at some rare location without proper Internet connection.
Cardreaders are available in both notebooks.
None has DVI output so you cannot connect them to some new monitors.
Only Pavilion dv9056ea has TV output.
These notebooks aren't very good for video conferencing since they haven't web camera inside.
Operating system on Gateway MX3414 is XP Media Center and on HP Pavilion dv9056ea is XP Home.
Only Gateway MX3414 has some additional software : Works 8.5, Money 2006.
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