Latitude 7490

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

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

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

Typically your first couple years in higher ed are fairly easy computationally, and further there's almost always remote resources available. The main reason a T480 isn't recommendable today isn't that it's too slow, I get by with 8th gen just fine, it's that T480 costs 2-4x what a similarly equippe

If it still works perfectly well, why do you need a processor upgrade? How about a Dell Latitude 7490? 8-th gen Intel with two RAM slots. You can get it on eBay. If you really want a CPU upgrade, there’s the HP Elitebook 845 G9 with two RAM slots, a Ryzen 6000-series CPU, glass trackpad, and a keybo

Dell latitude 7490 ,which was originally a 7480 but I upgraded the motherboard and now I have i5 kaby lake refresh (8 gen) instead of i5 Skylake (6gen) 30 USD upgrade butt I was lucky 💁

yeah for sure! Honestly, my personal laptop right now is only one generation newer than T470, a Dell Latitude 7490. (And, I have a 5580 and a surface laptop 1 both with 7300U in them) I have a couple machines the same age/generation as the T470 and can say that even one generation forward (like to D

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

+1 on the #80 series as a minimum baseline for modern daily usage. T480, T490, E480, E490, L-series would probably also be decently good. Some of these families have 2/3/5 series options (e.g. X280) for bigger and smaller but 14 is historically a decent compromise. (look for intel 8-series CPUs) #70

My friend do what you like but idk what sort of work you can do with 8gb of ram on a dual core processor. you can often find a refurbished Dell Latitude 7490 or ThinkPad T480. These have quad-core processors (double the power) and are much easier to upgrade to 16GB or 32GB of RAM. Keep in mind the x