Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 came to us with Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz CPU inside and Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi came to us with Celeron M389 1.6GHz processor inside.
We prefere 15.4 inch wide screen size at model TravelMate 2414NWLMi than 13.3 built at model Vaio VGN-SZ220.
For customers whose need more RAM we've found Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 with its 1GB better than 0.25 GB on Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi.
Vaio VGN-SZ220 allows maximum 2GB RAM - higher than TravelMate 2414NWLMi (-1GB RAM).
Vaio VGN-SZ220 is significantly lighter with 1.86kg weight, than TravelMate 2414NWLMi with 2.7kg.
Graphic card in use in Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 is Nvidia Go 7400 and in notebook Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi is Intel 910GML.
We like that video card on Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 have own video memory (128MB) and therefore its faster since it doesn't use main memory and mainboard controller is less loaded.
More hard disk space were available at Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 (120GB is contast to 40GB).
If you have infrared enabled devices if you buy Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 you won't be able to communicate with them.
No firewire connection on model Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 has PCMCIA.
Small advantage of Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 is built-in cardreader which reads 5 card types.
None has DVI output so you cannot connect them to some new TFT monitors.
Internet telephony is better with web camera but any of these notebooks hasn't one .
Vaio VGN-SZ220 drives XP Media Center and TravelMate 2414NWLMi drives Linux operating system.
There are additional software only on Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 and it is Works 8.5.
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