Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G came to us with Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz CPU inside and Samsung M700-1860 came to us with Pentium M750 1.86GHz central processor inside.
Monitor in Samsung M700-1860 is 19" size, better than 17" screen in Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G.
For people who likes higher screen resolutions, 1680x1050 on M700-1860 might be more preferable than 1440x900 on Vaio VGN-AR230G screen.
Both Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G and Samsung M700-1860 on our test had same amount of RAM memory - 1GB.
On both laptops in use is DDR2 memory.
Graphic card in Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is Nvidia Go 7400 and in Samsung M700-1860 is Nvidia Go 6600.
Video cards contains chips with 128MB of memory on Samsung M700-1860, other laptop have less (64MB) of memory on its video card.
More hard disk space were at Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G (200GB is contast to 80GB).
Samsung M700-1860 should load programs for hard disk faster with its 5400rpm fast drive.
These laptops have disadvantage in lack of built-in bluetooth device which is quite useful for communication with digital cameras, mobile phones and some other devices.
Infrared is missing on Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G.
These laptops can communicate using firewire with camcorders and some other video devices.
If you sometimes travel to destination without broadband connection, you don't have to worry since laptops have internal modems.
Only Samsung M700-1860 supports fast internet (1Gbit/s).
These laptops have cardreader inside (1 different card types can read).
These laptops don't have DVI output to allow you to see screen on some bigger modern monitors.
Only Vaio VGN-AR230G has TV output.
The number of USB ports is 3 on both.
Both notebooks are equipped with stardard 54Mbit/s wireless.
There are no web camera in both notebooks which is bad for video conferencing .
Operating system is XP Media Center on Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G and XP Home on Samsung M700-1860.
Additional software is MGI Video Wave, Nero Norton Antivirus (90Tage) Photo Suite,Power DVD 3.0 on Samsung M700-1860 and Works 8.3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, Premiere Elements 2.0 on Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G.
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