Laptop Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 has Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz processor inside and notebook Acer Aspire 9512WSMi Gamer has Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz CPU.
We prefere more 17" monitor on Acer Aspire 9512WSMi Gamer than 13.3" monitor on Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220.
If you like higher screen resolutions than you might decide that Acer Aspire 9512WSMi Gamer is better with its 1440x900 than Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 with 1280x800.
Inside both Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 and Acer Aspire 9512WSMi Gamer we've found 1GB of memory.
Vaio VGN-SZ220 allows maximum 2GB RAM - higher than Aspire 9512WSMi Gamer (-1GB RAM).
Both laptops use same RAM memory (DDR2).
Vaio VGN-SZ220 is quite lighter with 1.86kg weight, than Aspire 9512WSMi Gamer with 3.95kg.
Graphic is built around Nvidia Go 7400 on Vaio VGN-SZ220, but graphic on other is Nvidia Go7900GS.
Video cards contains chips with 512MB of memory on Acer Aspire 9512WSMi Gamer, other laptop have less (128MB) of memory on its graphic card.
More hard disk space were available at Acer Aspire 9512WSMi Gamer (240GB is contast to 120GB).
Bluetooth dongle available only at Acer Aspire 9512WSMi Gamer is usefull if one have other bluetooth devices like cameras, mobile phones, etc.
Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 doesn't have infrared .
Both laptops have firewire which some camcorders use.
Both models have PCMCIA built-in needed by some TV cards .
If you sometimes travel to destination without broadband internet connection, you don't have to worry since both laptops have internal modems.
Cardreader in Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 can read 5 different card types and in Acer Aspire 9512WSMi Gamer can read 1 different card types.
Only Acer Aspire 9512WSMi Gamer has DVI output which allows you to connect it to newer monitors.
Only Aspire 9512WSMi Gamer has TV output.
Laptops are able to use standard 54Mbit/s wireless connection.
Acer Aspire 9512WSMi Gamer has advantage in web camera which is useful for Internet telephony .
Operating system on Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 is XP Media Center and on Acer Aspire 9512WSMi Gamer is XP Home.
There are additional software only on Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 and it is Works 8.5.
It is worthy to note that Acer Aspire 9512WSMi Gamer has two hard disks of 120 in RAID. Also Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 has some important speciality - .
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