Latitude 7490

Dell

Latitude 7490

84 positive 2 neutral 13 negative

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Are the ThinkPads really that good or is it all about their soul?

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

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Cory5413 in r/thinkpad

January 16, 2026 3:12 AM

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t480 vs t14

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

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Cory5413 in r/thinkpad

January 8, 2026 10:50 PM

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Revolutionizing the field (after I finish wrestling with APA).

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.

Demolition_Truck in r/PhD

November 30, 2025 8:35 AM

5

Should I join the church of Thinkpad.

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

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Cory5413 in r/thinkpad

January 15, 2026 1:59 AM

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Which T14 should I get?

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

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Cory5413 in r/thinkpad

March 25, 2026 12:14 AM

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On my hands and knees, begging somebody to just tell me which ThinkPad model to buy.

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

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Cory5413 in r/thinkpad

December 2, 2025 3:21 AM

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Need recommendations for cheap (under $300) laptop win11

I'm with u/and1metal: go for an off-lease (FB Marketplace) or refurbished business laptop, a Thinkpad or Dell Latitude. I believe Win 11 requires at least an 8th generation Intel i7/i5 and TPM (Trusted Platform Module 2.0). I'm partial to Dell Latitudes, currently typing this out on a Latitude 7490

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lingueenee in r/laptops

March 8, 2026 10:32 PM

3

Odabir laptopa

Kupio sam "refusbished" Dell 7490/i7-8650U/16GB Ram/256GB SSD/14"/W10 tamo negdje 09/2022 kceri za studiranje - ne zali se (odnosno, zalila se na neke neobjasnjene restarte ali na kraju ispalo software problem). Koristila ga je i za posao, sve OK. ...s druge strane, ja imam poslovni Dell 7420 (nezna

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NarCroMan_21 in r/CroIT

March 11, 2026 6:37 PM

2

Reemplazo para notebook por renovación

La latitude 7490 es particularmente una buena máquina. Será interesante que cosa vas a elegir para reemplazarle, considerando que Dell funciona excelente con Fedora y linux en general, al menos en dell a mi me funciona la hibernación en linux y el sensor detecta todo, hasta los rpm.

taylofox in r/chileIT

October 21, 2025 7:20 PM

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2020 T490 vs Latitude 5400 for Linux

I'm using a Dell Latitude 7490, which is one year older and one product level higher up and it's been a great machine. The 5400 should be a great machine.

Cory5413 in r/linuxhardware

December 17, 2025 6:49 AM

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