Latitude 7490

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

ThinkPads are a poor choice for this specifically because some of the 8th gen models are considered "legendary" and are regularly talked about by online influeners. So like T480s are oldest officially to run 11 but they can be seen for $300+. IME standard retail 11 runs fine on 8th gen without needi

Looks great! I've been thinking a lot about this kind of thig as I've been answering questions people ask about which thinkpad to buy and what the differences are between them and I think you touch on a really important misunderstanding. ThinkPads (and the other ExcelBox desktop and laptop models fr

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

A random corporate ewaste laptop. Mine happens to be a Dell 7490 with 32GB RAM and i7. They are $100-150 on eBay.

get a PC dude. you can find some pretty good ones for under 300 dollars on TEMU. thats how i got my dell latitude 7490 laptop. costed me 209 dollars and has lasted me nonstop

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

Get a newer computer. If budget is your top concern, consider Dell Latitudes. They generally cost as little as ~half what any given ThinkPad model does on eBay, for something more or less comparable. (e.g. ThinkPad T480 can run $150-200 and Latitude 7490 tends to run at more like $100. (This can var

The reason there's so many ThinkPad models is because there are so many different needs. Here in the US, ThinkPads cost more than all the other business laptops despite being basically the same build/tech/specs-wise, because they're the subject of influencer content and so on a budget your money gen

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