Laptop Gateway MX6448 has Turion X2 Dual 1.6GHz central processor unit inside and laptop Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z has Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz CPU.
On both models screen size is 15.4".
If you want to run many programs at once 2GB of RAM on this Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z is better than Gateway MX6448 with 1GB.
Both Gateway MX6448 and Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z laptops have same amount of maximum supportable RAM memory - 2GB.
Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z has less weight (2.82kg), comparing to 2.86kg on another .
Graphic card in Gateway MX6448 is ATI XPRESS 1150 and in notebook Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z is Nvidia Go 7600.
Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z laptop is more suitable with its 200GB hard disk for storing large amounts of media information like music .
Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z has faster hard drive (with 5400rpm).
If you have some bluetooth devices if you buy Gateway MX6448 you will need external bluetooth dongle which is not excellent idea.
If you have infrared enabled devices if you buy Gateway MX6448 you won't be able to communicate with them.
Both laptops have firewire which some camcorders use.
Modem is built in both laptops.
Cardreaders are inside both of these notebooks.
Disadvantage of both is lack of DVI output for connection to some modern monitors.
Each laptop has 54Mbit/s wireless
Only Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z has web camera useful for video conferencing.
Both came with XP Media Center operating system .
Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z came with Adobe Acrobat Elements 7.0, Works, Photshop Elements, DV Gate Plus, WinDVD, Roxio Digital Media SE7, Norton Internet Security 2006, Skype 2,0 as additional software, and Gateway MX6448 came with Works 8.5, Money 2006.
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