Laptop Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 uses Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz processor, and laptop Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 uses Turion64 X2 1.6GHz central processor unit.
Monitor in HP dv9008nr is 17" size, better than 13.3" screen in Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220.
HP dv9008nr notebook has better maximum screen resolution - 1440x900, in contrast to 1280x800 at Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220.
In both notebooks we've found 1GB of RAM.
Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 weights 1.86kg, but HP dv9008nr isn't really suitable for travellers with its 3.54kg.
Graphic is built around Nvidia Go 7400 on Vaio VGN-SZ220, but graphic on other laptop is built using Nvidia Go 6150.
Graphic card is better on Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 with embedded 128MB of memory.
More hard disk space were available at Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 (120GB is contast to 100GB).
Same rotating speed (5400) is declared for their hard drives.
There are internal modem in both models.
Both laptops have cardreader which supports 5 different card types.
It is bad that these laptops cannot be connected to some new TFT monitors since they don't have DVI.
Advantage of HP dv9008nr is existance of TV output.
Laptops are able to use standard 54Mbit/s wireless connection.
There are no web camera in both notebooks which is bad for video conferencing .
Operating system on both is XP Media Center.
There are some special software suits and software packs with both : Works 8.5, Money 2006 with HP dv9008nr and Works 8.5 with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220.
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