Central processor unit in Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 is Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz and in HP dv8301nr is Turion64 1.8GHz.
Monitor in HP dv8301nr is 17" size, better than 13.3" screen in Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220.
For people who likes higher screen resolutions, 1440x900 on dv8301nr might be more preferable than 1280x800 on Vaio VGN-SZ220 screen.
More RAM on Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 means less swapping on hard drive. Vaio VGN-SZ220 had 1GB. HP dv8301nr had only 0.5GB of RAM which might not suit users who wants to run many programs at once.
Both Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 and HP dv8301nr laptops have same amount of maximum supportable RAM memory - 2GB.
Vaio VGN-SZ220 is quite lighter with its 1.86kg weight, than dv8301nr with 3.63kg.
Video card in use in Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 is Nvidia Go 7400 and in HP dv8301nr is ATI Mobility 200M.
Each has 128MB of memory on its graphic cards.
Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 had more hard disk space (120 GB) - definetly something which users who have habbit hold movies on it will certainly like.
Same rotating speed (5400) is declared for their hard drives.
Firewire is embedded in both allows them to communicate with IEEE 1394 devices like some camcorders.
Both laptops have built-in modem which you need somewhere where broadband internet isn't available.
Cardreaders are available in both laptops.
It is bad that these laptops cannot be connected to some new TFT monitors since they don't have DVI.
There are no web camera in laptops which is bad for video conferencing .
XP Media Center is operating system on both.
HP dv8301nr came with Works 8.5, Money 2006 as additional software, and Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 came with Works 8.5.
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