Laptop HP dv9008nr has Turion64 X2 1.6GHz central processor unit inside and notebook Samsung X11-T5500 CeSeba has Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66Ghz CPU.
We prefere 17 inch wide screen size at model dv9008nr than 14 built at model X11-T5500 CeSeba.
Graphic professionals might find HP dv9008nr model with its 1440x900 maximum screen resulution more preferable.
We've got both notebooks with 1GB of RAM memory.
Both HP dv9008nr and Samsung X11-T5500 CeSeba on our test use same type of RAM memory - DDR2.
For people who travells more, Samsung X11-T5500 CeSeba might be better choise because of its 2.1kg in weight, comparing to 3.54kg weight with HP dv9008nr.
Graphic card in HP dv9008nr is Nvidia Go 6150 and in laptop Samsung X11-T5500 CeSeba is Nvidia Go 7400.
Gamers might prefer Samsung X11-T5500 CeSeba since it seems it has quite better graphic card with 128MB of its memory.
Rotating speed of hard drives are the same - 5400 rpm.
Don't forget that you might not be able easily to upload/download pictures on HP dv9008nr from your camera and mobile phone during the lack of bluetooth connection.
Infrared isn't built in HP dv9008nr, which is slightly disadvantage.
PCMCIA on Samsung X11-T5500 CeSeba unable them to connect to some TV cards .
If you sometimes travel to destination without broadband internet connection, you don't have to worry since laptops have internal modems.
Fast network (1Gbit/s) could be used on full speed only by Samsung X11-T5500 CeSeba.
Cardreaders are inside both of these laptops.
None has DVI output so you cannot connect them to some new monitors.
Advantage of HP dv9008nr is existance of TV output.
Each laptop has 54Mbit/s wireless
These laptops aren't very good for video conferencing since they haven't web camera built-in.
dv9008nr drives XP Media Center and X11-T5500 CeSeba drives XP Home operating system.
There are some special software suits and software packs with both : Works 8.5, Money 2006 with HP dv9008nr and Power DVD XP with Samsung X11-T5500 CeSeba.
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