Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 came to us with Pentium M740 1.73GHz main central processor inside and Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi came to us with Celeron M389 1.6GHz central processor inside.
TFT screen on both monitor is 15.4" large.
Although memory could easily be expanded, 1GB on Vaio VGN-FS980 versus 0.25GB on TravelMate 2414NWLMi might be significant difference.
Vaio VGN-FS980 allows maximum 2GB RAM - higher than TravelMate 2414NWLMi (-1GB RAM).
On both laptops in use is DDR2 memory.
TravelMate 2414NWLMi weigths less with its 2.7kg than the another one.
Graphic card inside Vaio VGN-FS980 is Intel GMA900 and other laptop uses Intel 910GML.
Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi laptop uses up to 64MB of main memory for graphic and other up to 128MB.
Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 had more capacity of hard drive (80GB, comparing to 40GB).
Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 have lack of infrared device.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 have firewire.
There are no PCMCIA on Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi.
Note that Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi cannot perform 1Gbit/s connection on fast networks, it will work on those, but with speed of 100Mbit/s.
Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 has cardreader which reads 4 different card types.
None has DVI output so you cannot connect them to some new monitors.
Operating system is XP Home on Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 and Linux on Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 has some additional software : Works 8.5.
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