Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G went with Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz CPU built in, and HP Pavilion dv9056ea with Turion X2 Dual 1.6GHz.
The same 17" screen size is on both Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G and HP Pavilion dv9056ea.
Maximum declared screen resolution on Vaio VGN-AR190G (1920x1200) beats Pavilion dv9056ea (1440x900).
To runs many programs at once we've found HP Pavilion dv9056ea better with its 2GB of RAM than Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G with 1GB. More memory means less swapping.
Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G supports more maximum amount of RAM (2) than HP Pavilion dv9056ea (-1GB).
Both laptops use same RAM memory (DDR2).
Graphic card in use in Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G is Nvidia Go 7600GT and in laptop HP Pavilion dv9056ea is Nvidia Go 7600.
Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G had more storage for files on its hard disk.
Both models have bluetooth device embedded.
Infrared embedded in both of these models allows them to communicate with other infrared devices like some mobile phones.
These laptops have firewire.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G has PCMCIA.
For some rare location without proper Internet connection, you might need modem which is available in both laptops in this rating.
Note that HP Pavilion dv9056ea cannot perform 1Gbit/s connection on fast networks, it will work on those, but with speed of 100Mbit/s.
Cardreader is inside only HP Pavilion dv9056ea.
None has DVI output so you cannot connect them to some new monitors.
TV output have both laptops.
Only Vaio VGN-AR190G has TV input.
Web camera is built in Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G (the another hasn't it) and that is useful for video conferencing.
Operating system on Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G is XP Media Center and on HP Pavilion dv9056ea is XP Home.
There are additional software only on Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G and it is Works 8.5.
It is worthy to note that Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G has two hard disks of 120 in RAID. Also HP Pavilion dv9056ea has some notable speciality - .
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