In Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G we've found Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz cpu and in Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G we have a pleasure to find Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz central processor unit.
The same 17" screen size is on both Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G and Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G.
Graphic professionals might find Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G model with its 1920x1200 maximum screen resulution more preferable.
Inside both notebooks were 1GB of memory.
Both laptops use same RAM memory (DDR2).
Weight is the same (3.81kg) on both laptops we've compared here.
Graphic card in Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G is Nvidia Go 7600GT and in Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G is Nvidia Go 7400.
Graphic cards contains more memory 256MB at Vaio VGN-AR190G and less at Vaio VGN-AR230G.
Each laptop contained 200GB of storage on its hard drives.
Fast hard disk (5400 rpm) on Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G beats another model.
If you have some bluetooth devices if you buy Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G you will need external bluetooth dongle which is not excellent idea.
Infrared isn't built in Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G, which is slightly disadvantage.
Both laptops have firewire which some camcorders use.
Fast network (1Gbit/s) could be used on full speed only by Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G.
Only model Vaio VGN-AR230G have cardreader inside.
They don't have DVI for new monitors.
TV output have both laptops.
Only Vaio VGN-AR190G has TV input.
Each notebook has 3 USB ports.
Web camera is built in Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G (the another notebook hasn't one) and that is useful for video conferencing.
Both came with XP Media Center operating system .
Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G came with Works 8.3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, Premiere Elements 2.0 as additional software, and Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G came with Works 8.5.
It is worthy to note that Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G has two hard disks of 120 in RAID. Also Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G has some important speciality - .
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