Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 went with Pentium M740 1.73GHz CPU built in, and Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M3438G with Pentium M750 1.86GHz.
We prefere more 17" monitor on Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M3438G than 15.4" monitor on Sony Vaio VGN-FS980.
For people who likes higher screen resolutions, 1440x900 on Amilo M3438G might be more preferable than 1280x800 on Vaio VGN-FS980 screen.
Inside both notebooks were 1GB of memory.
Video card in use in Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 is Intel GMA900 and in Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M3438G is Nvidia Geforce 6800.
Graphic cards on Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M3438G have own memory (256MB) and because of that mainboard's controller works faster.
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M3438G had more capacity of hard disk (100GB, comparing to 80GB).
Disadvantage of Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 is lack of bluetooth which you need for some mobile phones and cameras.
Infrared, which is useful for communication with some mobile phones is available only on Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M3438G.
Both laptops have firewire which some camcorders use.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 has PCMCIA.
1Gbit/s internet connection is supportable only by Sony Vaio VGN-FS980.
Both laptops have cardreader which supports 4 different card types.
DVI output which Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M3438G notebook has allows you to see its screen onto bigger modern TFT monitors.
The lack of webcamera in both models makes them bad in video conferencing.
Operating system is XP Home .
Only Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 has some additional software : Works 8.5.
It is worthy to note that Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M3438G has Remote Control. Also Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 has some notable speciality - .
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