Laptop HP dv9008nr has Turion64 X2 1.6GHz central processor unit inside and laptop Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi has Pentium M740 1.73GHz CPU.
We prefere 17 inch wide screen size at model dv9008nr than 15.4 built at model TravelMate 4072NWLMi.
To runs many programs at once we've found HP dv9008nr better with its 1GB of RAM than Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi with 0.5GB. More memory means less swapping.
dv9008nr allows maximum 2GB RAM - higher than TravelMate 4072NWLMi (-1GB RAM).
For people who travells frequently, Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi might be better choise with 2.75kg in weight, comparing to 3.54kg weight with HP dv9008nr.
Video card inside dv9008nr is Nvidia Go 6150 and other laptop has Intel 915GM inside.
Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi uses up to 64MB of main RAM memory for video card - other laptop up to 128MB.
HP dv9008nr laptop is more suitable with its 100GB hard drive for storing large amounts of media information like music and movies.
Lack of bluetooth on HP dv9008nr might mean that you will have to buy externall bluetooth device for downloading and uploading pictures from your mobile phone or camera.
Infrared is built-in just in Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi.
Firewire is available only on HP dv9008nr.
PCMCIA is available only on HP dv9008nr and it is needed by some TV cards, external hard drives and external modems.
Only HP dv9008nr have cardreader inside.
Disadvantage of both is lack of DVI output for connection to some modern TFT monitors.
Only dv9008nr has TV output.
There are no web camera in notebooks which makes them bad for video conferencing .
Operating system on HP dv9008nr is XP Media Center and on Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi is Linux.
Only HP dv9008nr has some additional software : Works 8.5, Money 2006.
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