Latitude 7490

The problem isn't the RAM, it's your graphics card (UHD Graphics 620). You're officially below the minimum requirements for the game. Your Dell Latitude 7490 is a business laptop and not designed for gaming.I'm sorry to have to give you the bad news. 😕

If you haven't yet, please read this: The Myth of the ThinkPad – Innovintage The True Soul of ThinkPad is that they are an economic process that happens with all business-oriented computing equipment, and many business-oriented tools in general. Companies buy these things thousands at a time, use th

Looks great! I've been thinking a lot about this kind of thig as I've been answering questions people ask about which thinkpad to buy and what the differences are between them and I think you touch on a really important misunderstanding. ThinkPads (and the other ExcelBox desktop and laptop models fr

T14 is newer and I'd go that direction if you can afford it. The T480 is on the inner edge of 9 years old and T490 is barely any better at the inner edge of 8 years old. (Although as mentioned they're arguably probably fine for office usage and light video work. my primary personal computer is a Lat

A random corporate ewaste laptop. Mine happens to be a Dell 7490 with 32GB RAM and i7. They are $100-150 on eBay.

My current main personal computer is a Dell Latitude 7490. It's been the best computer I've ever had. At ~6-7ish years old it still gets ~3-4ish hours of battery life, it can run off a DC barrel jack or USB-C power, and it meets the requirements for Windows 11. There's hundreds of them on eBay with

Same everything I put ptm on I get amazing results. Evga ftw3 3080, Asus strix 1080, dell latitude 7490 i7, wyze 5070 mini pc. The performance of ptm7950 is amazing, and supposed to last a VERY long time which gives me peace of mind.

The reason there's so many ThinkPad models is because there are so many different needs. Here in the US, ThinkPads cost more than all the other business laptops despite being basically the same build/tech/specs-wise, because they're the subject of influencer content and so on a budget your money gen

I've been using it quite a while, it works fine. My rig is Dell Latitude 7490 with 8th gen core i5, 16gb ram, and I'm using office 2019 and zotero 7. Just make sure that Zotero is open while you use its word plugin. That way, when you add citation, the zotero prompt will appear.

What kind of specs and/or overall vibes/priorities are you looking at? Not all ThinkPads are fully internally flexible. Some T14S machines and many X-series machines have soldered RAM, which isn't necessarily bad if you're aware and plan up front. I usually recommend Intel 8th gen for the quad-cores