Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 came to us with Pentium M740 1.73GHz CPU inside and Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z came to us with Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz CPU inside.
Both models have the same 15.4" screen size.
Both of compared notebooks : Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 and Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z have the same maximum screen resolution (1280x800).
Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z came with more RAM memory - 2GB comparing to 1GB on Sony Vaio VGN-FS980.
Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 is lighter with its weight of 2.72kg, comparing to 2.82kg at other laptop.
Graphic card in Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 is Intel GMA900 and in laptop Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z is Nvidia Go 7600.
Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z had more hard disk space (200 GB) - definetly something which users who have habbit hold movies on it will certainly like.
Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z should load programs for hard disk faster with its 5400rpm fast disk.
Bluetooth exists only on Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z model and you might need it for managing pictures on camera or mobile phone.
If you have infrared enabled devices if you buy Sony Vaio VGN-FS980 you won't be enabled to communicate with them.
Firewire useful for some video equipment communication is built-in both laptops.
Note that Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z cannot perform 1Gbit/s connection on fast networks, it will work on those, but with speed of 100Mbit/s.
Cardreaders are inside both of these notebooks.
These laptops don't have DVI output to allow you to see its screen on bigger modern TFT monitors.
Both notebooks are equipped with 54Mbit/s wireless.
Only Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z has web camera useful for video conferencing.
Operating system on Vaio VGN-FS980 is XP Home and on Vaio VGN-FE31Z is XP Media Center.
Additional software is Adobe Acrobat Elements 7.0, Works, Photshop Elements, DV Gate Plus, WinDVD, Roxio Digital Media SE7, Norton Internet Security 2006, Skype 2,0 on Sony Vaio VGN-FE31Z and Works 8.5 on Sony Vaio VGN-FS980.
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