Latitude 7490

8665U will probably do those things vine. The heaviest of webtech apps (Canva, most conferencing/communication apps these days) could struggle a little bit compared to something newer but stuff should basically run fine. The machine is basically 8 years old and the battery might nto be great. This i

600 is a pretty wide open budget. The oft-recommended mainstream jack-of-all-trades T14 series is probably the way to go unless you can think of some specific reason you'd prefer something else, such as a tablet for handwriting notes and for your drawing. I tend to recommend cross-shopping other use

that 0.4ghz lock is classic BD PROCHOT triggering from a faulty sensor after that bios update. i had this on a 7490 at work. first try rolling back the bios if dell lets you downgrade - check their driver page for older versions. if not, download throttlestop and disable 'bd prochot' in the main win

At any given time I'm running a pair a systems: a media-oriented desktop (Windows) and a developer-oriented laptop (Linux, until recently). The desktop has a 4k screen, nice speakers, discrete GPU, and I use it for all video (from YouTube to feature films), music, and games (GOG, Steam). Thanks to w

Use Windows IoT LTSC instead. Normal Windows will make your machine becomes unstable and laggy even on basic usage. I have a Dell 7490 myself and 24H2, 25H2 version cause lots of lags on my laptop

Of these the T480 is the best choice. I recommen cross-shopping Dell Latitudes. If you're in the US, $220 should get you a two-generations-newer Latitude 7420 or so. For example, very slightly rough shape, but: https://www.ebay.com/itm/188124538781 Almost all ThinkPads as old as these will have thei

It's a dell latitude 7490 with an i5-8250u.no external gpu.fans are not spinning that fast but i have noticed that the laptop gets hot.like it did not get that much hot on windows.it's like cpu is turboing even when it's not supposed to.