HP dv8301nr came to us with Turion64 1.8GHz central processor inside and Samsung M700-1860 came to us with Pentium M750 1.86GHz central processor .
We like more Samsung M700-1860 19" inch screen than HP dv8301nr's 17" size.
Maximum screen resulution on Samsung M700-1860 is 1680x1050, which might prefer graphic experts rather than 1440x900 on HP dv8301nr.
For customers whose need more RAM we've found Samsung M700-1860 with its 1GB better than 0.5 GB on HP dv8301nr.
On both laptops in use is DDR2 memory.
Graphic card inside dv8301nr is ATI Mobility 200M and other laptop uses Nvidia Go 6600.
Each laptop have 128MB of video memory built on its graphic card.
Capacity on hard disks were 80GB.
If you need bluetooth don't forget that it is available only at Samsung M700-1860 .
Infrared isn't built in HP dv8301nr, which is slightly disadvantage.
Both models have firewire built-in needed by some video devices.
Both models have PCMCIA built-in needed by some TV cards for laptops.
For some rare location without proper Internet connection, you might need modem which is available in both laptops in this comparison.
Only Samsung M700-1860 supports fast internet connection (1Gbit/s).
Both laptops have cardreader. At HP dv8301nr it reads 6 different card types and cardreader in Samsung M700-1860 supports 1 different card types.
They don't have DVI for new TFT monitors.
The lack of webcamera in both models makes them bad in video conferencing.
Operating system on dv8301nr is XP Media Center and on M700-1860 is XP Home.
There are some special software suits and software packs with both : MGI Video Wave, Nero Norton Antivirus (90Tage) Photo Suite,Power DVD 3.0 with Samsung M700-1860 and Works 8.5, Money 2006 with HP dv8301nr.
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