Latitude 7490

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

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

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

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

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

The W530 will run linux. People regularly say it's good at it. It's also fifteen years old. So, the question is basically whether or not you think you'll do anything heavy and/or how much patience you have. If you're in the US you can get much newer machines for not an awful lot of money. Most peopl

Depending, also consider Dell Latitude 7490 and 7400, which are of the same hardware generation as the 480/490 and have generally comparable specs and physical build quality, but go for a lot less on US eBay. Otherwise the CPUs in the first and second wave of intel 8th gen (the main difference betwe

For sure! In terms of support on an ThinkPad X1 Carbon (6th Gen), it's already the oldest most people recommend for daily use and that model is just on the inner edge of 9 years old. I personally bet I could get another 3-5 years out of my Dell Latitude 7490 but I've been poking around for something