In both Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 and Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi we've found Pentium M740 1.73GHz central processor unit inside.
Both Vaio VGN-FS980 and TravelMate 4072NWLMi have 15.4" screen size.
For customers whose need more RAM we've found Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 with its 1GB better than 0.5 GB on Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi.
Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 supports more maximum amount of RAM (2) than Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi (-1GB).
Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 is less heavier with its 2.72kg, comparing to 2.75kg.
Video card in use in Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 is Intel GMA900 and in Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi is Intel 915GM.
Laptops probably aren't suitable for gamers since they don't have dedicated memory on its video cards.
Capacity on hard disks were 80GB.
Bluetooth connection, useful for sharing multimedia data with cameras , is available only on Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi.
Infrared, which is needed for communication with some mobile phones is available only on Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi.
There are no firewire built-in on Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi.
No PCMCIA on model Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi. It is needed by some TV cards for laptops.
On 1Gbit/s Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi will work with speed of 100Mbit/s since it doesn't suport fast networks.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 have cardreader inside.
It is bad that these notebooks cannot be connected to some new LCD monitors since they don't have DVI.
Quite disadvantage of both models is lack of web camera which needs Internet telephony.
Operating system is XP Home on Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 and Linux on Acer TravelMate 4072NWLMi.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 has special software pack : Works 8.5.
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