Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 went with Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz central processor unit built in, and Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso with Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66Ghz.
Model Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 uses Intel 915GM chipset and model Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 uses Intel 945.
Monitor in Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso is 15.4" size, better than 13.3" screen in Panasonic Toughbook CF-74.
Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso notebook have finer maximum screen resolution(1280x800) than other (1024x768).
If you think you will need more memory then you'll known than 1GB on Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso is better than 0.5GB on Panasonic Toughbook CF-74.
Number of free RAM slots is higher on R40-T500 Cinoso - 1.
On both R40-T500 Cinoso and Toughbook CF-74 models is declared that accumulator allows 3 hours of work without power supply.
Graphic card inside Toughbook CF-74 is Intel 915GM and other laptop uses ATI Mobility 200M.
Up to 64MB main RAM memory is in use for video on Toughbook CF-74 and up to 128MB on R40-T500 Cinoso.
More storage for multimedia were available at Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso (greater space on hard disk).
Bluetooth, which isn't available on both of these notebooks, unable these notebooks to communicate with some other small devices - laptops with bluetooth, some mobile phones and some digital cameras.
No built-in infrared communication device in any laptops.
You might need firewire for attaching some devices (rarely) and these don't have it.
PCMCIA is available only on Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso and it is needed by some TV cards and external modems.
Modem is built in both laptops.
Small advantage of Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso is built-in cardreader which reads 1 card types.
If someone still uses old floppy disks (which we don't recommend since they are quite obsolete), Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 has floppy drive.
It is bad that these laptops cannot be connected to some new LCD monitors since they don't have DVI.
Internet telephony is better with web camera but these laptops hasn't one .
Operating system on Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 is XP Pro and on Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso is XP Home.
Only Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso has special software pack : Power DVD XP.
Special adventages of these notebooks are : protection on temperatures, touchpad and touchscreen for Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 and for Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso.
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