Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G came to us with Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz main processor inside and Acer Travelmate 2312LM came to us with Celeron M360 1.4GHz processor inside.
Vaio VGN-AR230G monitor screen with its 17 inch we like more than 15 inch screen at Travelmate 2312LM.
Maximum screen resulution on Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is 1440x900, which might prefer graphic experts rather than 1024x768 on Acer Travelmate 2312LM.
Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G model we've tested had more RAM (1GB) than Acer Travelmate 2312LM (0.25GB).
Video card in use in Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is Nvidia Go 7400 and in Acer Travelmate 2312LM is i852GM DVMT.
Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G seems to be better for gamers with 64MB of dedicated video memory.
More storage for multimedia were available at Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G (greater space on hard disk).
Both laptops have same rotating speed (4200rpm) of their hard disks.
These laptops cannot communicate with some devices like mobile phones and digital cameras without external bluetooth dongles since they don't have bluetooth built-in.
Infrared, which isn't available on both of these models, unable these laptops to communicate with some small devices - like some mobile phones.
There are firewire built-in only on Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G.
Fast network (1Gbit/s) cannot be used on its full speed on both .
Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G has cardreader which reads 1 different card types.
These laptops don't have DVI output to allow you to see its screen on bigger modern monitors.
Advantage of Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is existance of TV output.
Lack of internal wireless for Acer Travelmate 2312LM is big disadvantage.
These laptops aren't really good for Internet telephony since they haven't web camera.
Operating system is XP Media Center on Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G and none on Acer Travelmate 2312LM.
There are additional software only on Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G and it is Works 8.3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, Premiere Elements 2.0.
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