HP dv8301nr came to us with Turion64 1.8GHz processor inside and Gateway MX6448 came to us with Turion X2 Dual 1.6GHz CPU .
Monitor in HP dv8301nr is 17" size, better than 15.4" screen in Gateway MX6448.
You should expirience less swapping on Gateway MX6448 than on HP dv8301nr when you run many programs, since Gateway MX6448 has 1GB of RAM, comparing to 0.5GB on other model.
Both HP dv8301nr and Gateway MX6448 on our test use same type of RAM memory - DDR2.
Weight of Gateway MX6448 is only 2.86kg, but HP dv8301nr is heavier with 3.63kg.
Video card in use in HP dv8301nr is ATI Mobility 200M and in Gateway MX6448 is ATI XPRESS 1150.
Gamers might prefer HP dv8301nr since it seems it has better graphic card with 128MB of its memory.
Gateway MX6448 laptop is more suitable with its 120GB hard disk for storing large amounts of media files like music and movies.
Fast hard disk (5400 rpm) on HP dv8301nr beats another model.
These laptops can communicate using firewire with camcorders and some other video devices.
Both models have PCMCIA built-in needed by some TV cards for laptops.
Both notebooks have cardreaders.
These laptops don't have DVI output to allow you to see its screen on some bigger modern TFT monitors.
Both laptops have 4 USB ports each.
These laptops aren't very suitable for video conferencing since they haven't web camera embedded.
Operating system is XP Media Center on both.
Software which came with both laptops are Works 8.5, Money 2006.
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