Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G came to us with Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz main central processor inside and Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 came to us with Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz central processor inside.
Monitor in Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G is 17" size, better than 13.3" screen in Panasonic Toughbook CF-74.
Maximum declared screen resolution on Vaio VGN-AR190G (1920x1200) beats Toughbook CF-74 (1024x768).
More RAM means less swapping when you run many programs at once and therefore Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G with 1GB RAM is better choise than Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 with 0.5GB.
Both Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G and Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 on our test had same amount of maximum RAM memory they can support - 2GB.
Both laptops use same RAM memory (DDR2).
Graphic card in Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G is Nvidia Go 7600GT and in Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 is Intel 915GM.
Graphic cards on Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G have own memory (256MB) and because of that mainboard's memory controller works faster.
Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G had more hard drive space (200 GB) - definetly something which users who hold movies on it will like.
Mobile phones and cameras tends to use bluetooth for sharing its multimedia data and they can easily connect only with Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G using built in bluetooth connection.
Infrared isn't built in Panasonic Toughbook CF-74, which is slightly disadvantage.
Firewire (IEEE 1394) isn't built in Panasonic Toughbook CF-74.
There are no PCMCIA on Panasonic Toughbook CF-74.
There are internal modem in both models.
1Gbit/s internet connection is supportable only by Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G.
Floppy drive built-in into Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 is quite disadvantage as old and burden technology.
None has DVI output so you cannot connect them to some new TFT monitors.
Only Vaio VGN-AR190G has TV output.
Only Vaio VGN-AR190G has TV input.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G has web camera useful for video conferencing.
Operating system on Vaio VGN-AR190G is XP Media Center and on Toughbook CF-74 is XP Pro.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G has some additional software : Works 8.5.
Special adventages of these notebooks are : protection on temperatures, touchpad and touchscreen for Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 and two hard disks of 120 in RAID for Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G.
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