Processor in Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 is Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz, and in notebook Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is Core Duo T2500 2.0GHz.
We think 15.4 inch screen at TravelMate 8204WLMI is better than 13.3 inch screen wide at Vaio VGN-SZ220.
Maximum declared screen resolution on TravelMate 8204WLMI (1680x1050) beats Vaio VGN-SZ220 (1280x800).
More RAM means less swapping when you run many programs at once and therefore Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI with 2GB RAM is better choise than Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 with 1GB.
Travellers might find Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 more suitable with its weight of 1.86kg comparing to Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI with 3.6kg.
Graphic card in use in Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 is Nvidia Go 7400 and in Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is X1600.
Laptops have solid graphic performances, Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI contains even 256MB memory on graphic card, the other product 128MB.
Capacity on hard drives were 120GB.
We do not have preference on their hard disk speed - 5400 rpm have both.
If you have bluetooth devices if you buy Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 you will need external bluetooth dongle which is not excellent idea.
Only Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is able to communicate with some other devices using infrared connection.
Firewire (IEEE 1394) isn't built in Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI.
These laptops have PCMCIA.
Both laptops have cardreader.
It is bad that these laptops cannot be connected to some new monitors since they don't have DVI.
Advantage of Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is existance of TV output.
Laptops are able to use standard 54Mbit/s wireless .
Quite disadvantage of both models is lack of web camera which needs Internet telephony.
Operating system on Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 is XP Media Center and on Acer TravelMate 8204WLMI is XP Pro.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 has some additional software : Works 8.5.
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