Central processor unit in Samsung M700-1860 is Pentium M750 1.86GHz and in Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z is Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz.
Screen size at Samsung M700-1860 is quite larger with its 19" than Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z with its 15.4".
Graphic professionals might find Samsung M700-1860 model with its 1680x1050 maximum screen resulution more preferable.
We got more memory (2GB) in Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z than in Samsung M700-1860 (1GB).
2GB is maximum supportable RAM memory on both notebooks
No empty RAM slots on both laptops.
On both Vaio VGN-FE31Z and M700-1860 models is declared that accumulator allows 3 hours of work using accumulator.
Video card inside M700-1860 is Nvidia Go 6600 and other laptop has Nvidia Go 7600 inside.
We like that video card on Samsung M700-1860 have its own video memory (128MB) and therefore its faster since it doesn't use main memory and mainboard controller is less loaded.
Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z had more storage for files on its hard disk.
We do not have preference on their hard disk speed - 5400 rpm have both.
Mobile phones and cameras tends to use bluetooth for manipulating its multimedia data and they can connect only with Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z using built in bluetooth connection.
Infrared, which is useful for communication with some mobile phones is available only on Samsung M700-1860.
These laptops have firewire.
These laptops have PCMCIA.
If you sometimes travel to destination without broadband connection, you don't have to worry since both laptops have internal modems.
Note that Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z cannot perform 1Gbit/s connection on fast networks, it will work on those, but with speed of 100Mbit/s.
These laptops have cardreader inside (1 different card types can read).
None has DVI output so you cannot connect them to some new LCD monitors.
Both notebooks have 3 USB ports each.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z has web camera useful for video conferencing.
Operating system is XP Home on Samsung M700-1860 and XP Media Center on Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z.
Additional software is Adobe Acrobat Elements 7.0, Works, Photshop Elements, DV Gate Plus, WinDVD, Roxio Digital Media SE7, Norton Internet Security 2006, Skype 2,0 on Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z and MGI Video Wave, Nero Norton Antivirus (90Tage) Photo Suite,Power DVD 3.0 on Samsung M700-1860.
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