Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G came to us with Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz main CPU inside and HP Compaq nx8220 came to us with Pentium M740 1.73GHz processor .
We like more Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G 17" inch screen than HP Compaq nx8220's 15.4" size.
More RAM on Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G means less swapping on hard drive. Vaio VGN-AR230G had 1GB. HP Compaq nx8220 had only 0.5GB of RAM which might not suit users who wants to run many programs at once.
2GB is maximum supportable RAM memory on both laptops
Graphic card inside Vaio VGN-AR230G is Nvidia Go 7400 and other laptop uses ATI X600.
Graphic cards on both have 64MB of video memory.
Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G had more hard disk space (200 GB) - definetly something which users who have habbit hold movies on it will like.
Mobile phones and cameras nowadays use bluetooth for multimedia data and they can easily connect only with HP Compaq nx8220 using built in bluetooth connection.
These laptops have disadvantage of communication with some infrared only devices like mobile phones.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G have firewire needed for some camcorders.
PCMCIA on HP Compaq nx8220 unable them to connect to some TV cards .
Both laptops have cardreader.
None has DVI output so you cannot connect them to some new TFT monitors.
Advantage of Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is existance of TV output.
There are no web camera in laptops which makes them bad for video conferencing and Internet telephony.
Operating system on Vaio VGN-AR230G is XP Media Center and on nx8220 is XP Pro.
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.
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