Laptop HP dv9008nr has Turion64 X2 1.6GHz central processor unit inside and laptop Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 has Pentium M778 Ultra Low Voltage CPU.
We think that dv9008nr has better screen with its 17" inch size than Toughbook CF-29 with its 13.3" large screen.
Maximum declared screen resolution on dv9008nr (1440x900) beats Toughbook CF-29 (1024x768).
To runs many programs at once we've found HP dv9008nr better with its 1GB of RAM than Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 with 0.5GB. More memory means less swapping.
Both HP dv9008nr and Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 notebooks have same amount of maximum supportable RAM memory - 2GB.
On both laptops in use is DDR2 memory.
Graphic card in HP dv9008nr is Nvidia Go 6150 and in notebook Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 is Intel 915GMS.
These notebooks don't contain dedicated RAM for graphic cards, they use part of main memory for their graphic cards.
More storage for multimedia (mpeg, avi) were available at HP dv9008nr (greater space on hard drive).
Don't forget that you might not be able easily to upload/download pictures on HP dv9008nr from camera and mobile phone during the lack of bluetooth connection.
HP dv9008nr doesn't have infrared device.
Firewire is available only on HP dv9008nr.
PCMCIA on Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 unable them to connect to 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 dv9008nr is built-in cardreader which reads 5 card types.
Floppy drive built-in into Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 is quite disadvantage as old and burden technology.
They don't have DVI for new LCD monitors.
Only dv9008nr has TV output.
These laptops aren't really good for Internet telephony because they haven't web camera.
Operating system on dv9008nr is XP Media Center and on Toughbook CF-29 is XP Pro.
Only HP dv9008nr has special software pack : Works 8.5, Money 2006.
Special adventages of these notebooks are : protection on vibrATIon, water, high temperatures and dust, touchpad and touchscreen for Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 and for HP dv9008nr.
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