Gateway MX3414 came to us with Turion X2 Dual 1.6GHz main central processor inside and Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B came to us with Centrino Duo T2300 1.66Ghz CPU inside.
We've found 15.4" monitor size on Vaio VGN-FE28B quite better than 14.1" at MX3414.
RAM memory was on both laptops 1GB.
Both Gateway MX3414 and Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B on our test had same amount of maximum RAM memory they can support - 2GB.
On both laptops in use is DDR2 memory.
Gateway MX3414 weights 2.4kg, but Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B isn't really suitable for travellers with 2.95kg.
Graphic is built around Nvidia Go 6100 on MX3414, but graphic on other laptop is built using Nvidia Go 7400.
Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B laptop have faster hard drive rotating on 5400rpm.
Bluetooth exists only on Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B model and you might need it for pictures on camera or mobile phone.
Infrared, which is useful for communication with some mobile phones is available only on Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B.
No firewire (IEEE 1394).
There are internal modem in these models.
Fast network (1Gbit/s) cannot be used on its full speed on both .
Both laptops have cardreader. At Gateway MX3414 it reads 4 different card types and cardreader in Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B supports 1 different card types.
These notebooks don't have DVI output to allow you to see its screen on some bigger modern TFT monitors.
The number of USB ports is 3 on both.
Each laptop has 54Mbit/s wireless
The lack of webcamera in both models makes them bad in video conferencing.
Operating system on both is XP Media Center.
Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B came with Adobe Acrobat Elements 7.0 as additional software, and Gateway MX3414 came with Works 8.5, Money 2006.
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