Pentium M740 1.73GHz was built in Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 laptop comparing to Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz in Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660.
We think that Qosmio G35-AV660 has better screen with its 17" inch size than Vaio VGN-FS980 with its 15.4" large screen.
Graphic professionals might find Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 model with its 1920x1200 maximum screen resulution more preferable.
If you want to run many programs at once 2GB of RAM on this Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 is better than Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 with 1GB.
Qosmio G35-AV660 allows maximum 4GB RAM - higher than Vaio VGN-FS980 (2GB RAM).
For people who travells often, Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 might be better choise with 2.72kg in weight, comparing to 4.58kg weight with Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660.
Video card inside Vaio VGN-FS980 is Intel GMA900 and other laptop has Nvidia Go 7600 inside.
Graphic cards on Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 have own memory (256MB) and because of that mainboard's memory controller works faster.
Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 laptop is more suitable with its 240GB hard drive for storing bunch of media information like music and movies.
Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 should load programs for hard disk faster with its 5400rpm fast disk.
Don't forget that you might not be able easily to upload/download pictures on Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 from camera during the lack of bluetooth connection.
If you have infrared enabled devices if you buy Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 you won't be able to communicate with them.
Both models have firewire built-in needed by some video devices.
Both models have PCMCIA built-in needed by some TV cards for laptops.
Both notebooks have cardreaders.
It is bad that these laptops cannot be connected to some new TFT monitors since they don't have DVI.
Only Qosmio G35-AV660 has TV output.
Only Qosmio G35-AV660 has TV input.
There are no web camera in laptops which is bad for video conferencing .
Operating system is XP Home on Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 and XP Media Center on Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660.
Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 came with Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Works 8.5 as additional software, and Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 came with Works 8.5.
Notable advantages of these laptops are : Fingerprint reader for Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV660 and for Sony Vaio VGN-FS980.
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