Laptop Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G has Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz processor inside and laptop Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546 has Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz CPU.
TFT screen on both monitor is 17" large.
Both of compared laptops : Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G and Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546 have the same maximum screen resolution (1440x900).
More RAM memory we've got in Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546 - 2GB. Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G came with 1GB.
Vaio VGN-AR230G allows maximum 2GB RAM - higher than Amilo Xi 1546 (-1GB RAM).
Graphic card in use in Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is Nvidia Go 7400 and in laptop Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546 is ATI Mobility X1800.
Video cards contains 256MB of memory on Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546, other laptop have less (64MB) of memory on graphic card.
Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G had more storage for files on hard disk.
Lack of bluetooth on Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G might mean that you will have to buy externall bluetooth device for downloading and uploading pictures from your handy or camera.
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546 have lack of infrared device.
There are no firewire built-in on Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546.
There are no PCMCIA on Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 1546.
On 1Gbit/s Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G will work with speed of 100Mbit/s since it doesn't suport fast networks.
Both laptops have cardreader which supports 1 different card types.
It is bad that these notebooks cannot be connected to some new TFT monitors since they don't have DVI.
Advantage of Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is existance of TV output.
Laptops are able to use standard 54Mbit/s wireless connection.
Internet telephony is better with web camera but these notebooks hasn't one inside.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G has special software pack : Works 8.3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, Premiere Elements 2.0.
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