HP Pavilion dv9056ea went with Turion X2 Dual 1.6GHz processor built in, and Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 with Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz.
We like more HP Pavilion dv9056ea 17" inch screen than Panasonic Toughbook CF-74's 13.3" size.
With its declared 1440x900 maximum screen resolution HP Pavilion dv9056ea laptop beats Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 with its 1024x768.
Although memory could easily be expanded, 2GB on Pavilion dv9056ea versus 0.5GB on Toughbook CF-74 might be significant difference.
Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 supports more maximum amount of RAM (2) than HP Pavilion dv9056ea (-1GB).
Graphic card inside Pavilion dv9056ea is Nvidia Go 7600 and other laptop uses Intel 915GM.
HP Pavilion dv9056ea had more storage for multimedia files on its hard drive.
If you need bluetooth don't forget that it is available only at HP Pavilion dv9056ea laptop.
Infrared, which is useful for communication with some mobile phones is available only on HP Pavilion dv9056ea.
There are firewire built-in only on HP Pavilion dv9056ea.
No PCMCIA on model HP Pavilion dv9056ea. It is needed by some TV cards .
If you sometimes travel to destination without broadband connection, you don't have to worry since laptops have internal modems.
Small advantage of HP Pavilion dv9056ea is built-in cardreader which reads 1 card types.
Floppy drive built-in into Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 is quite disadvantage as old and burden technology.
These laptops don't have DVI output to allow you to see screen on some bigger modern monitors.
Advantage of HP Pavilion dv9056ea is existance of TV output.
Quite disadvantage of both models is lack of web camera which needs Internet telephony.
Operating system on Pavilion dv9056ea is XP Home and on Toughbook CF-74 is XP Pro.
Notable advantages of these laptops are : protection on temperatures, touchpad and touchscreen for Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 and for HP Pavilion dv9056ea.
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