HP dv8301nr came to us with Turion64 1.8GHz main processor inside and Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 came to us with Centrino 753 Ultra Low Voltage 1.2GHz CPU inside.
We prefere more 17" monitor on HP dv8301nr than 10.3" monitor on Panasonic Toughbook CG-18.
Maximum screen resulution on HP dv8301nr is 1440x900, which might prefer graphic experts rather than 1024x768 on Panasonic Toughbook CG-18.
Inside both laptops were 0.5GB of memory.
HP dv8301nr supports more maximum amount of RAM (2) than Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 (-1GB).
There are more free RAM slots available on dv8301nr - 1.
For people who travells frequently, Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 might be better choise with 2.1kg in weight, comparing to 3.63kg weight with HP dv8301nr.
Graphic is built around ATI Mobility 200M on dv8301nr, but graphic on other laptop is built using Intel 915GMS.
Graphic card is better on HP dv8301nr with embedded 128MB of memory.
More hard drive space were available at HP dv8301nr (80GB is contast to 60GB).
Disadvantage of HP dv8301nr is lack of bluetooth connection which you might need for some mobile phones and cameras.
Only Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 is able to communicate with some small devices using infrared connection.
No firewire connection on model Panasonic Toughbook CG-18.
Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 doesn't have PCMCIA.
Small advantage of HP dv8301nr is built-in cardreader which reads 6 card types.
If someone still uses old floppy disks (which we don't recommend since they are quite obsolete), Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 has floppy drive.
It is bad that these notebooks cannot be connected to some new TFT monitors since they don't have DVI.
Each laptop has 54Mbit/s wireless
Operating system on HP dv8301nr is XP Media Center and on Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 is XP Pro.
Only HP dv8301nr has special software pack : Works 8.5, Money 2006.
Notable advantages of these laptops are : touch pad and touch screen for Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 and for HP dv8301nr.
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