Laptop HP dv9008nr has Turion64 X2 1.6GHz central processor unit inside and laptop Gateway MX6931 has Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66Ghz CPU.
Screen size at HP dv9008nr is quite larger with its 17" than Gateway MX6931 with its 15.4".
You should expirience less swapping on Gateway MX6931 than on HP dv9008nr when you run many programs, since Gateway MX6931 has 2GB of RAM, comparing to 1GB on other model.
On both laptops in use is DDR2 memory.
Weight of Gateway MX6931 is only 2.86kg, but HP dv9008nr is heavier with 3.54kg.
Video card inside dv9008nr is Nvidia Go 6150 and other laptop has Intel 950 inside.
When running they both took up to 128MB of memory from mainboard for video card.
Gateway MX6931 laptop is more suitable with its 160GB hard disk for storing bunch of media files like music .
Same rotating speed (5400) is declared for their hard drives.
Both models have firewire built-in needed by some video devices.
PCMCIA useful for some TV card for laptops is built in both laptops.
There are internal modem in these models.
These notebooks have cardreaders inside them.
It is bad that these laptops cannot be connected to some new LCD monitors since they don't have DVI.
HP dv9008nr only has TV output.
Advantage of Gateway MX6931 is existance of TV input.
Each has 4 USB ports.
Quite disadvantage of both models is lack of web camera which needs Internet telephony.
Operating system is XP Media Center .
These laptops have the following software on them : Works 8.5, Money 2006.
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