Turion64 1.8GHz was built in HP dv8301nr laptop comparing to Pentium M760 2.0GHz in Asus Z 9266 VA.
Screen size at HP dv8301nr is quite larger with its 17" than Asus Z 9266 VA with its 15.4".
HP dv8301nr laptop has better maximum screen resolution - 1440x900, in contrast to 1280x800 at Asus Z 9266 VA.
Although memory could easily be expanded, 1GB on Z 9266 VA versus 0.5GB on dv8301nr might be significant difference.
On both laptops in use is DDR2 memory.
There are 1 free RAM slots on dv8301nr rather than 0.
Graphic card in use in HP dv8301nr is ATI Mobility 200M and in Asus Z 9266 VA is ATI Mobility Radeon X700.
Each notebook have 128MB of video memory built on its video card.
Capacity on hard drives were 80GB.
Bluetooth exists only on Asus Z 9266 VA model and you might need it for pictures on your camera or mobile phone.
If you have infrared enabled devices if you buy HP dv8301nr you won't be enabled to communicate with them.
Asus Z 9266 VA doesn't support firewire connections.
There are internal modem in these models.
Small advantage of HP dv8301nr is built-in cardreader which reads 6 card types.
None has DVI output so you cannot connect them to some new TFT monitors.
Both notebooks have 4 USB ports each.
The lack of webcamera in both models makes them bad in video conferencing.
Operating system on HP dv8301nr is XP Media Center and on Asus Z 9266 VA is XP Home.
There are additional software only on HP dv8301nr and it is Works 8.5, Money 2006.
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