Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz was built in Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 laptop comparing to Centrino Duo T2300 1.66Ghz in Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B.
Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 notebook is built using Intel 915GM chipset, and its competitor , Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B, is built using Intel 945PM Express.
We think 15.4 inch screen at Vaio VGN-FE28B is better than 13.3 inch screen wide at Toughbook CF-74.
Graphic professionals might find Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B model with its 1280x800 maximum screen resulution more preferable.
Although memory could easily be expanded, 1GB on Vaio VGN-FE28B versus 0.5GB on Toughbook CF-74 might be significant difference.
Around 3.3 is duration of accumulators built in both Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B and Panasonic Toughbook CF-74.
Video card inside Toughbook CF-74 is Intel 915GM and other laptop has Nvidia Go 7400 inside.
More storage for multimedia (mpeg, avi) were available at Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B (more space on hard disk).
These laptops have disadvantage in lack of built-in bluetooth device which is quite useful for communication with digital cameras, mobile phones and some other devices.
Buying any, you might experience lack of infrared device.
Keep in mind that these models don't have firewire which you might need by some video and storage devices (although rarely).
Only Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B has PCMCIA.
Small advantage of Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B is built-in cardreader which reads 1 card types.
Floppy drive is embedded in Panasonic Toughbook CF-74, but we see this as disadvantage since floppy disks are unreliable and obsolete.
Disadvantage of both is lack of DVI output for connection to some modern TFT monitors.
Each laptop has 54Mbit/s wireless
These notebooks aren't very good for video conferencing since they haven't web camera built-in.
Toughbook CF-74 drives XP Pro 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.
Special adventages of these laptops are : protection on temperatures, touchpad and touchscreen for Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 and for Sony Vaio VGN-FE28B.
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