Laptop HP dv9008nr has Turion64 X2 1.6GHz processor inside and laptop Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI has Pentium M740 1.73GHz CPU.
We prefere more 17" monitor on HP dv9008nr than 15.4" monitor on Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI.
HP dv9008nr notebook has better maximum screen resolution - 1440x900, in contrast to 1280x768 at Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI.
Although memory could easily be expanded, 1GB on dv9008nr versus 0.5GB on TravelMate 4602WLMI might be significant difference.
Both laptops use same RAM memory (DDR2).
TravelMate 4602WLMI is significantly lighter with 3kg weight, than dv9008nr with 3.54kg.
Graphic card inside dv9008nr is Nvidia Go 6150 and other laptop uses X700.
We like that graphic card on Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI have own video memory (64MB) and therefore its faster since it doesn't use main memory and mainboard controller is less loaded.
More hard drive space were available at HP dv9008nr (100GB is contast to 80GB).
Don't forget that you might not be able easily to upload/download pictures on HP dv9008nr from camera and mobile phone during the lack of bluetooth connection.
Infrared is built-in just in Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI.
Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI doesn't support firewire connections.
PCMCIA useful for some TV card for laptops is built in both laptops.
Fast internet speed (1Gbit/s) is supportable only by Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI.
These notebooks have cardreaders inside them.
DVI output which Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI notebook has allows you to see its screen onto bigger modern TFT monitors.
TV output exists on both.
There are no web camera in both notebooks which is bad for video conferencing and Internet telephony.
Operating system is XP Media Center on HP dv9008nr and XP Home on Acer TravelMate 4602WLMI.
Only HP dv9008nr has some additional software : Works 8.5, Money 2006.
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