Laptop Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 has Pentium M740 1.73GHz central processor unit inside and notebook Gateway MX6931 has Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66Ghz CPU.
The same 15.4" screen size is on both Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 and Gateway MX6931.
More RAM means less swapping when you run many programs at once and therefore Gateway MX6931 with 2GB RAM is better choise than Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 with 1GB.
Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 could be described as less heavier with its 2.72kg, comparing to 2.86kg .
Video card in use in Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 is Intel GMA900 and in Gateway MX6931 is Intel 950.
Video cards on both notebooks uses 128MB of shared RAM from mainboard.
Gateway MX6931 had more capacity of hard disk (160GB, comparing to 80GB).
Fast hard disk (5400 rpm) on Gateway MX6931 beats another model.
Both laptops have firewire which some camcorders use.
If you need fast internet connection of 1Gbit/s note that only Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 is able to support it. Gateway MX6931 will run 100Mbit/s on faster connection.
These laptops have cardreader inside (4 different card types can read).
These laptops don't have DVI output to allow you to see its screen on some bigger modern monitors.
Advantage of Gateway MX6931 is existance of TV input.
Quite disadvantage of both models is lack of web camera which needs Internet telephony.
Vaio VGN-FS980 drives XP Home and MX6931 drives XP Media Center operating system.
Software which came with Gateway MX6931 is Works 8.5, Money 2006 and with Gateway MX6931 is Works 8.5.
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