Latitude 7490

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

Basic desktop usage is gonna be "fine" on anything with four cores, 16gb of ram or better, SSD or better, intel 8th gen and AMD ryzen 2nd or newer and with supported graphics. That line applies to both windows 11 (close to those are the official requirements) and linux. All "T14" models are newer th

That machine looks nice, but I have couple thoughts: I have no idea how any warranty would work on eBay. At oldest, the Dell Latitude 7490 shoudl've launched in mid-late 2017 which means any given one is up to 8ish years old at this point. They're cheap enough you can just buy a whole body double. T

Yeah for sure! On background, the reason I keep mentioning Dells is because, especially if you're looking at used machines, they tend to be a little bit of a better deal. Dell's new store is also slightly easier to navigate and their pricing is clearer, I personally find. This becomes truer the newe

You should be able to get Dell Latitude 7490s with a quad-core 8th gen i5 (official windows11 support) with 16B of RAM and a 256 SSD, for a little less than $150. As an example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/136813928904 32GB of RAM is nice but it won't make up for the performance you'll miss out of the

T480 is older than E495. If you're looking for an upgrade, maybe see about a newer E14-series or L-14 series machine? Otherwise, if you're looking for more battery life, maybe see about supplementing what's built-in with a type-c power supply? Any laptop with an intel 8th generation CPU does IME pla

As a heads up T480s are just about nine years old. I would largely say they are still useful for basic computing usage, but you're gonna run into the type of problems almost-nine-year-old laptops have. They're (all ThinkPad T-series IME) also massively overpriced. They are price on US eBay at up to

My guess is you'll outgrow the CPU in either of these machines before you outgrow any other part of it. The T480 is nearly a decade old and the P52 is... also nearly a decade old, but it's datasheet was updated more recently. As has already been mentioned these are wildly different machines. The oth

If you’re studying cybersecurity, I’d lean toward Windows or Linux over macOS. Most tools, labs, and certifications like CCNA and CompTIA assume a Windows or Linux environment, and you’ll have a much easier time setting up virtual machines and running network analysis tools. You also don’t need a de

I never buy new laptops and I am always on the lookout for a system that will run Linux. I could have bought a T480 from ebay, but at the time I was in the market I was looking locally. I picked up a used Latitude 7490 I5, replaced the battery and it has been fine for me. Later I stumbled on a Latit