Processor in HP dv8301nr is Turion64 1.8GHz and in Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 is Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz.
Both models have the same 17" screen size.
Graphic professionals might find Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 model with its 1920x1200 maximum screen resulution more preferable.
If you think you will need more memory then you'll known than 2GB on Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 is better than 0.5GB on HP dv8301nr.
Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 supports more maximum amount of RAM (4) than HP dv8301nr (2GB).
Travellers might find HP dv8301nr more suitable with its weight of 3.63kg comparing to Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 with 4.58kg.
Graphic card inside dv8301nr is ATI Mobility 200M and other laptop uses Nvidia Go 7600.
Graphic cards contains more memory 256MB at Qosmio G35-AV660 and less at dv8301nr.
Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 laptop is more suitable with its 240GB hard drive for storing bunch of media information like music and movies.
There are no bluetooth devices on HP dv8301nr and that might be disadvantage.
HP dv8301nr doesn't have infrared .
Firewire is embedded in both models allows them to communicate with IEEE 1394 devices like some camcorders.
Note that only Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 is able to take advantage of fast internet connections (1Gbit/s).
Both notebooks have cardreaders.
They don't have DVI for new TFT monitors.
Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 only has TV output.
Advantage of Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 is TV input.
Both laptops have 4 USB ports each.
Laptops are able to use standard 54Mbit/s wireless .
XP Media Center is operating system on both.
Additional software is Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Works 8.5 on Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 and Works 8.5, Money 2006 on HP dv8301nr.
It is worthy to note that Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 has Fingerprint reader. Also HP dv8301nr has some important speciality - .
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