Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 came to us with Pentium M740 1.73GHz CPU inside and Toshiba Satellite M60-182 came to us with Pentium M760 2.0GHz central processor .
Monitor in Toshiba Satellite M60-182 is 17" size, better than 15.4" screen in Sony Vaio VGN-FS980.
To runs many programs at once we've found Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 better with its 1GB of RAM than Toshiba Satellite M60-182 with 0.5GB. More memory means less swapping.
Both Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 and Toshiba Satellite M60-182 on our test had same amount of maximum RAM memory they can support - 2GB.
The RAM memory in use on both laptops is DDR2.
Both laptops have 1 of unused RAM slots.
Video card inside Vaio VGN-FS980 is Intel GMA900 and other laptop has ATI X700 inside.
Gamers might prefer Toshiba Satellite M60-182 since it seems it has better graphic card with 128MB of its memory.
More hard drive space were at Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 (80GB is contast to 60GB).
Disadvantage of Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 is lack of bluetooth connection which you need for some mobile phones and cameras.
Infrared connection has only Toshiba Satellite M60-182.
These laptops can communicate using firewire with camcorders and some other video devices.
Toshiba Satellite M60-182 doesn't have PCMCIA.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 supports fast internet connection (1Gbit/s).
Cardreaders are inside both of these notebooks.
Disadvantage of both is lack of DVI output for connection to some modern TFT monitors.
There are no web camera in laptops which makes them bad for video conferencing and Internet telephony.
Operating system is XP Home on both.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 has some additional software : Works 8.5.
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