Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G went with Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz processor built in, and Asus Z 9274 VM with Pentium M745 1.8GHz.
We've found 17" monitor size on Vaio VGN-AR230G quite better than 15.4" at Z 9274 VM.
Maximum declared screen resolution on Vaio VGN-AR230G (1440x900) beats Z 9274 VM (1280x800).
We've got both laptops with 1GB of RAM memory.
If you think to move your notebook around frequently, Asus Z 9274 VM have weight only 2.9kg, but Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is heavier - 3.81kg.
Graphic is built around Nvidia Go 7400 on Vaio VGN-AR230G, but graphic on other laptop is built using Nvidia Geforce 7300.
Video card on each laptop is equiped with 64MB of memory.
Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G had more capacity of hard drive (200GB, comparing to 100GB).
Asus Z 9274 VM has faster hard drive (with 5400rpm).
These laptops cannot communicate with some small devices like mobile phones and digital cameras without external bluetooth dongles because they don't have bluetooth built-in.
Unfortunatly, any of these doesn't have infrared communication embedded which might be significant disadvantage.
PCMCIA useful for some TV card for laptops is built in both laptops.
None of notebooks suports 1Gbit/s network speed.
Small advantage of Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is built-in cardreader which reads 1 card types.
Disadvantage of both is lack of DVI output for connection to some modern monitors.
TV output exists on both.
Laptops are able to use standard 54Mbit/s wireless .
Operating system on Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is XP Media Center and on Asus Z 9274 VM is XP Home.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G has some additional software : Works 8.3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, Premiere Elements 2.0.
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