Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G came to us with Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz processor inside and Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M3438G came to us with Pentium M750 1.86GHz CPU inside.
On both models screen size is 17".
On both Vaio VGN-AR230G and Amilo M3438G there is maximum screen resolution of 1440x900.
Both Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G and Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M3438G on our test had same amount of RAM memory - 1GB.
Graphic card inside Vaio VGN-AR230G is Nvidia Go 7400 and other laptop uses Nvidia Geforce 6800.
These notebooks have dedicated RAM (256MB on Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M3438G, 64MB on Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G) on its graphic cards.
Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G had more storage for files on its hard drive.
Bluetooth, which is low power wireless connection, isn't available on both laptops, and that might be big disadvantage.
Unfortunatly, any of these doesn't have infrared communication embedded which might be significant disadvantage.
Firewire is embedded in both allows them to communicate with IEEE 1394 devices like some camcorders.
PCMCIA isn't built in Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M3438G.
There are internal modem in both models.
Both notebooks have cardreaders.
Only Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M3438G has DVI output which allows you to connect it to new TFT monitors.
Only Vaio VGN-AR230G has TV output.
Laptops are able to use standard 54Mbit/s wireless .
There are no web camera in laptops which is bad for video conferencing .
Operating system is XP Media Center on Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G and XP Home on Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M3438G.
There are additional software only on Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G and it is Works 8.3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, Premiere Elements 2.0.
Special adventages of these laptops are : Remote Control for Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M3438G and for Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G.
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