CPU in LG S1-MDGBG is Core Duo T2500 2.0GHz and in Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 is Centrino 753 Ultra Low Voltage 1.2GHz.
We prefere 15.4 inch wide screen size at model S1-MDGBG than 10.3 built at model Toughbook CG-18.
With its declared 1280x800 maximum screen resolution LG S1-MDGBG notebook beats Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 with its 1024x768.
Although memory could easily be expanded, 1GB on S1-MDGBG versus 0.5GB on Toughbook CG-18 might be significant difference.
Both LG S1-MDGBG and Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 on our test use same type of RAM memory - DDR2.
Weight of Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 is only 2.1kg, but LG S1-MDGBG is heavier with its 2.8kg.
Graphic is built around ATI Radeon X1600 on S1-MDGBG, but graphic on other is Intel 915GMS.
Graphic card is better on LG S1-MDGBG with embedded 256MB of memory.
LG S1-MDGBG laptop is more suitable with its 100GB hard drive for storing bunch of media files like music .
Disadvantage of Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 is lack of bluetooth which you might need for some mobile phones and cameras.
If you have infrared enabled devices if you buy LG S1-MDGBG you won't be enabled to communicate with them.
Firewire (IEEE 1394) isn't built in LG S1-MDGBG.
There are no PCMCIA on Panasonic Toughbook CG-18.
Cardreader is inside only LG S1-MDGBG.
If someone still uses old floppy disks (which we don't recommend since they are quite obsolete), Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 has floppy drive.
It is bad that these notebooks cannot be connected to some new TFT monitors since they don't have DVI.
Advantage of LG S1-MDGBG is existance of TV output.
The lack of webcamera in both models makes them bad in video conferencing.
XP Pro is operating system .
It is worthy to note that Panasonic Toughbook CG-18 has touch pad and touch screen. Also LG S1-MDGBG has some important speciality - .
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