Processor in HP Pavilion dv9056ea is Turion X2 Dual 1.6GHz and in Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B is Centrino Duo T2300 1.66Ghz.
We prefere more 17" monitor on HP Pavilion dv9056ea than 15.4" monitor on Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B.
With its declared 1440x900 maximum screen resolution HP Pavilion dv9056ea laptop beats Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B with its 1280x800.
More RAM memory we've got in HP Pavilion dv9056ea - 2GB. Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B came with 1GB.
Graphic card inside Pavilion dv9056ea is Nvidia Go 7600 and other laptop uses Nvidia Go 7400.
HP Pavilion dv9056ea had more hard disk space (120 GB) - definetly something which users who hold movies on it will certainly like.
Lack of bluetooth on Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B might mean that you need to buy externall bluetooth device for manipulating pictures from mobile phone or camera.
Infrared, which is useful for communication with some mobile phones is available only on HP Pavilion dv9056ea.
Firewire is available only on HP Pavilion dv9056ea.
PCMCIA is available only on Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B and it is needed by some TV cards, external hard drives and external modems.
Internal modem is available in both and you will need it on some location without proper Internet .
These notebooks have cardreader inside (1 different card types can read).
None has DVI output so you cannot connect them to some new LCD monitors.
HP Pavilion dv9056ea only has TV output.
Internet telephony is better with web camera but any of these laptops hasn't one .
Pavilion dv9056ea drives XP Home and Vaio VGN-FE28B drives XP Media Center operating system.
There are additional software only on Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B and it is Adobe Acrobat Elements 7.0.
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