Laptop Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 has Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz central processor unit inside and laptop Toshiba Satellite M60-182 has Pentium M760 2.0GHz CPU.
We like more Toshiba Satellite M60-182 17" inch screen than Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220's 13.3" size.
To runs many programs at once we've found Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 better with its 1GB of RAM than Toshiba Satellite M60-182 with 0.5GB. More memory means less swapping.
Both Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 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.
Video card in use in Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 is Nvidia Go 7400 and in Toshiba Satellite M60-182 is ATI X700.
Each laptop have 128MB of video memory built on its video card.
More storage for multimedia (mpeg, avi) were available at Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 (more conforable space on hard disk).
There are no bluetooth on Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 and that might be disadvantage.
Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 doesn't have infrared device.
Both models have firewire built-in needed by some video devices.
There are no PCMCIA on Toshiba Satellite M60-182.
Cardreaders in both notebooks are able to read 5 card types.
Disadvantage of both is lack of DVI output for connection to some modern TFT monitors.
These laptops aren't very suitable for video conferencing since they haven't web camera built-in.
Vaio VGN-SZ220 drives XP Media Center and Satellite M60-182 drives XP Home operating system.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-SZ220 has special software pack : Works 8.5.
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