Laptop Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G has Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz processor inside and notebook Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI has Core Duo T2500 2.0GHz CPU.
Vaio VGN-AR230G monitor screen with its 17 inch we like more than 15.4 inch screen at TravelMate 8204WLMI.
With its declared 1680x1050 maximum screen resolution Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI notebook beats Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G with its 1440x900.
More RAM memory we've got in Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI - 2GB. Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G came with 1GB.
Both Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G and Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI on our test use same type of RAM memory - DDR2.
We must say that Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is less in weight with 3.6kg, comparing to 3.81kg which other laptop has.
Graphic card in Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is Nvidia Go 7400 and in laptop Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is X1600.
Video cards contains 256MB of memory on Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI, other laptop have less (64MB) of memory on video card.
Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G laptop is more suitable with its 200GB hard disk for storing large amounts of media information like music .
Fast hard disk (5400 rpm) on Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI beats another model.
We regret the lack of blutooth on these laptops.
These laptops have disadvantage of communication with some infrared only devices like mobile phones.
Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI doesn't support firewire connections.
If you sometimes travel to destination without broadband internet connection, you don't have to worry since laptops have internal modems.
On fast networks (1Gbit/s) these notebooks will work only 100Mbit/s because their internal network card cannot achieve more.
These notebooks have cardreaders inside them.
Disadvantage of both is lack of DVI output for connection to some modern monitors.
Both notebooks have TV output.
These notebooks aren't really good for video conferencing since they haven't web camera built-in.
Operating system on Vaio VGN-AR230G is XP Media Center and on TravelMate 8204WLMI is XP Pro.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G has special software pack : Works 8.3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, Premiere Elements 2.0.
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