Gateway MX6448 came to us with Turion X2 Dual 1.6GHz main processor inside and Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G came to us with Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz CPU inside.
Monitor in Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is 17" size, better than 15.4" screen in Gateway MX6448.
Quantity of RAM memory was 1GB on both Gateway MX6448 and Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G.
On both laptops in use is DDR2 memory.
Travellers might find Gateway MX6448 more suitable with weight of 2.86kg comparing to Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G with its 3.81kg.
Graphic card in use in Gateway MX6448 is ATI XPRESS 1150 and in Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is Nvidia Go 7400.
Graphic card is better on Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G with embedded 64MB of memory.
Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G had more hard disk space (200 GB) - definetly something which users who have habbit hold movies on it will certainly like.
Both laptops have same rotating speed (4200rpm) of their hard disks.
If you have bluetooth devices if you buy Gateway MX6448 you will need external bluetooth dongle which is not excellent idea.
Gateway MX6448 have lack of infrared communication device.
Firewire useful for some video equipment communication is built-in both laptops.
If you sometimes travel to destination without broadband internet connection, you don't have to worry since both laptops have internal modems.
Cardreaders are available in both laptops.
These notebooks don't have DVI output to allow you to see screen on some bigger modern TFT monitors.
Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G only has TV output.
Quite disadvantage of both models is lack of web camera which is needed for Internet telephony.
XP Media Center is operating system .
Additional software is Works 8.3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, Premiere Elements 2.0 on Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G and Works 8.5, Money 2006 on Gateway MX6448.
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