Gateway MX3414 came to us with Turion X2 Dual 1.6GHz processor inside and Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G came to us with Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz central processor .
We've found 17" monitor size on Vaio VGN-AR230G quite better than 14.1" at MX3414.
The amount of RAM memory was 1GB on both laptops.
Both Gateway MX3414 and Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G notebooks have same amount of maximum supportable RAM memory - 2GB.
Travellers might find Gateway MX3414 more suitable with weight of 2.4kg comparing to Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G with 3.81kg.
Graphic card in use in Gateway MX3414 is Nvidia Go 6100 and in notebook Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is Nvidia Go 7400.
Gamers might prefer Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G since it seems it has better graphic card with 64MB of its memory.
More hard drive space were at Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G (200GB is contast to 100GB).
Both laptops have same rotating speed (4200rpm) of their hard disks.
Bluetooth connection, useful for sharing multimedia data with cameras and mobile phones, is available only on Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G.
If you have infrared enabled devices if you buy Gateway MX3414 you won't be able to communicate with them.
There are no firewire built-in on Gateway MX3414.
Unfortunatly, these notebooks don't support fast network connections of 1Gbit/s.
Both notebooks have cardreader. At Gateway MX3414 it reads 4 different card types and cardreader in Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G supports 1 different card types.
It is bad that these laptops cannot be connected to some new TFT monitors since they don't have DVI.
Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G only has TV output.
Both laptops have 3 USB ports each.
Internet telephony is better with web camera but these notebooks hasn't one inside.
Both came with XP Media Center .
Software which came with Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is Works 8.3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, Premiere Elements 2.0 and with Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is Works 8.5, Money 2006.
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