Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 came to us with Pentium M740 1.73GHz processor inside and Acer Aspire 3681WXMI came to us with Celeron M410 1.46GHz central processor .
We prefere more 15.4" monitor on Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 than 14.1" monitor on Acer Aspire 3681WXMI.
Both of compared notebooks : Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 and Acer Aspire 3681WXMI have the same maximum screen resolution (1280x800).
More RAM on Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 means less swapping on hard drive. Vaio VGN-FS980 had 1GB. Acer Aspire 3681WXMI had only 0.5GB of RAM which might not suit users who wants to run many programs at once.
Both laptops use same RAM memory (DDR2).
Acer Aspire 3681WXMI has less weight (2.35kg), comparing to 2.72kg on another laptop here.
The same Intel GMA900 graphic card is in use on both laptops.
Laptops probably aren't suitable for gamers since they don't have dedicated memory on video cards.
More hard drive space were at Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 (80GB is contast to 40GB).
Fast hard disk (5400 rpm) on Acer Aspire 3681WXMI beats another model.
Bluetooth dongle available only at Acer Aspire 3681WXMI is usefull if one have other bluetooth devices like some cameras, mobile phones, etc.
If you have infrared enabled devices if you buy Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 you won't be enabled to communicate with them.
Firewire (IEEE 1394) isn't built in Acer Aspire 3681WXMI.
Very fast internet (1Gbit/s) supports only Sony Vaio VGN-FS980.
Both notebooks have cardreader. At Acer Aspire 3681WXMI it reads 5 different card types and cardreader in Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 supports 4 different card types.
They don't have DVI for new TFT monitors.
Internet telephony is better with web camera but these notebooks hasn't one .
XP Home is operating system on both.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 has special software pack : Works 8.5.
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