CPU in HP dv8301nr is Turion64 1.8GHz, and in laptop Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso is Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66Ghz.
We like more HP dv8301nr 17" inch screen than Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso's 15.4" size.
With its declared 1440x900 maximum screen resolution HP dv8301nr notebook beats Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso with its 1280x800.
More RAM on Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso means less swapping on hard drive. R40-T500 Cinoso had 1GB. HP dv8301nr had only 0.5GB of RAM which might not suit users who wants to run many programs at once.
For people who travells often, Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso might be better choise with its 2.1kg in weight, comparing to 3.63kg weight with HP dv8301nr.
The same ATI Mobility 200M video card is in use on both laptops.
Graphic cards on HP dv8301nr have own memory (128MB) and therefore mainboard's memory controller works faster.
More storage for multimedia were available at Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso (more space on hard disk).
Same rotating speed (5400) is declared for their hard drives.
For some small devices like phones and cameras, you might need bluetooth which initially contains in only in Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso.
Only Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso is able to communicate with some other devices using infrared connection.
No firewire connection on model Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso.
Both models have PCMCIA built-in needed by some TV cards .
Cardreader in HP dv8301nr can read 6 different card types and in Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso can read 1 different card types.
Disadvantage of both is lack of DVI output for connection to some modern TFT monitors.
These laptops aren't very suitable for Internet telephony since they haven't web camera.
Operating system on dv8301nr is XP Media Center and on R40-T500 Cinoso is XP Home.
HP dv8301nr came with Works 8.5, Money 2006 as additional software, and Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso came with Power DVD XP.
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