Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G went with Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz CPU built in, and Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi with Pentium M740 1.73GHz.
Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G laptop is built using Intel 945PM chipset, and its competitor , Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi, is built using Intel 915GM.
We prefere 17 inch wide screen size at model Vaio VGN-AR230G than 15.4 built at model TravelMate 4072NWLMi.
To runs many programs at once we've found Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G better with its 1GB of RAM than Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi with 0.5GB. More memory means less swapping.
Vaio VGN-AR230G allows maximum 2GB RAM - higher than TravelMate 4072NWLMi (-1GB RAM).
Both notebooks use same RAM memory (DDR2).
Travellers might find Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi more suitable with weight of 2.75kg comparing to Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G with 3.81kg.
Video card inside Vaio VGN-AR230G is Nvidia Go 7400 and other laptop has Intel 915GM inside.
Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G seems to be better for gamers with 64MB of dedicated video memory.
Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G had more capacity of hard disk (200GB, comparing to 80GB).
We dislike the fact that bluetooth isn't available on these notebook models.
Infrared, which isn't available on both of these models, unable these laptops to communicate with some devices - like some mobile phones.
Firewire is available only on Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G.
Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi doesn't have PCMCIA.
Small advantage of Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is built-in cardreader which reads 1 card types.
Disadvantage of both is lack of DVI output for connection to some modern TFT monitors.
Only Vaio VGN-AR230G has TV output.
The number of USB ports is 3 on both.
Both laptops are equipped with 54Mbit/s wireless.
These notebooks aren't really good for video conferencing because they haven't web camera inside.
Operating system on Vaio VGN-AR230G is XP Media Center and on TravelMate 4072NWLMi is Linux.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G has some additional software : Works 8.3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, Premiere Elements 2.0.
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