Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 went with Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz central processor unit built in, and Samsung M700-1860 with Pentium M750 1.86GHz.
Screen size on Samsung M700-1860 is larger, 19 comparing to 13.3 on Panasonic Toughbook CF-74.
Samsung M700-1860 laptop have finer maximum screen resolution(1680x1050) than other laptop(1024x768).
Samsung M700-1860 model we've tested had more RAM (1GB) than Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 (0.5GB).
2GB is maximum supportable RAM memory on both laptops
Both notebooks use same RAM memory (DDR2).
No free RAM slots on both models.
Both laptop models are allowing 5 running without power supply (on internall accumulator).
Graphic is built around Intel 915GM on Toughbook CF-74, but graphic on other laptop is Nvidia Go 6600.
Samsung M700-1860 seems to be better for gamers with 128MB of dedicated video memory.
80GB were on its hard drives.
Unfortunatly, owners of these laptops might have problems for sharing data with their cameras and mobile phones due to lack of embedded bluetooth device.
There are no infrared embedded in Panasonic Toughbook CF-74.
Only Samsung M700-1860 have firewire.
Only Samsung M700-1860 has PCMCIA.
If you sometimes travel to destination without broadband internet connection, you don't have to worry since laptops have internal modems.
Note that Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 cannot perform 1Gbit/s connection on fast networks, it will work on those, but with speed of 100Mbit/s.
Small advantage of Samsung M700-1860 is built-in cardreader which reads 1 card types.
Although if you still have floppy disks you should definetly move them to new technologies, Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 has floppy drive inside.
They don't have DVI for new monitors.
Each laptop has 54Mbit/s wireless
Quite disadvantage of both models is lack of web camera which needs Internet telephony.
Operating system is XP Pro on Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 and XP Home on Samsung M700-1860.
Only Samsung M700-1860 has some additional software : MGI Video Wave, Nero Norton Antivirus (90Tage) Photo Suite,Power DVD 3.0.
Notable advantages of these notebooks are : protection on temperatures, touchpad and touchscreen for Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 and for Samsung M700-1860.
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