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Want a great price on a laptop this holiday season? Check out our favorite Black Friday laptop deals.The Lenovo ThinkPad T490 is a boring laptop. But sometimes boring is good — like economy sedans that are unparalleled at getting human beings from point A...
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Excellent build quality, Superior keyboard and great touchpad, Very long battery life, Option for discrete graphics...
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Not the thinnest or lightest around, Substandard display for the price...
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No, unless you care most about the keyboard or durability.Editors' RecommendationsThe best business laptops for 2020 The best 4K laptops Dell Inspiron 15 7000 review: Powerful, affordable, and expandable The best OLED laptops for 2020 Acer ConceptD 9 revi...
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Small CPU refresh. Lenovo is refreshing its ThinkPad T490 one last time before the impending launch of the ThinkPad T14. The update is so minor, however, that you can opt for last year's ThinkPad T490 or just wait for the ThinkPad T14 instead without miss...
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deeper key travel than most Ultrabooks, TrackPoint and mouse keys, 4G LTE WAN option, matte touchscreen, easy serviceability, Wi-Fi 6...
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high temperatures when under load, smaller battery than ThinkPad T480, no 6-core Core i7-10710U option, no internal 2.5-inch SATA III bay, thick top and bottom bezels, non-upgradeable RAM, webcam shutter...
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As noted in our initial overview of the series, the raw performance benefits of Comet Lake-U over Whiskey Lake-U are marginal save for the hexa-core Core i7-10710U which is unfortunately not available on the ThinkPad T490. Instead, users can only configur...
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Introduced earlier this year, the Lenovo ThinkPad T490 is a “do it all” business laptop that has a wide gamut of possible configurations, making it simple to deploy to various roles, from office workers to developer or even creative staff.Data shows that...
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The Lenovo T490 (official US product page) is designed as a business laptop, and it shows. It puts aside a lot of typical consumer product “wants,” such as a thin body and glam design in favor of incredibly flexible configuration options and a ton of port...
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More pixels and less battery life. Like the ThinkPad X1 Extreme before it, the 14-inch ThinkPad T490 also gets a higher resolution WQHD panel with 100% AdobeRGB color-space coverage. The excellent image quality is countered by a reflective display surface...
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robust case, more compact and lighter than the predecessor, diverse equipment, very comfortable input devices, bright and saturated display with a high color-space coverage, above average CPU performance, 25-watt version of the MX250 is used, fan is most...
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very reflective display with significantly increased power demands, no color profile for sRGB, no full-sized SD card slot anymore, Thunderbolt 3 is only connected with two PCIe lanes, case is hard to open, high case temperatures, throttling in the stress...
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– The WQHD panel is just not quite suitable for the T490The reflective WQHD panel didn't really convince us in the ThinkPad T490. On one hand, the image quality is very good and those who need color-space coverage that is as large as possible in the lapt...
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Better without NVIDIA? We are already well acquainted with the ThinkPad T490, having reviewed the model with an NVIDIA GPU only last month. Now it is time for the model with only an Intel GPU to be subjected to our tests, but how will it perform in the ab...
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robust design, more compact and lighter than its predecessor, varied connectivity, comfortable input devices, bright & colour accurate display, frugal Full HD panel, above-average CPU performance, fan typically remains switched off, decent battery life...
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display has poor reaction times, no full-sized SD card slot, Thunderbolt 3 only utilises 2 PCIe lanes, case is difficult to open, no Power Bridge support...
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The Lenovo ThinkPad T490-20N2004EGE laptop review. Test device courtesy of notebooksandmore.de.The Lenovo ThinkPad T490 is an excellent business laptop with or without an NVIDIA GPU. The model without an NVIDIA chip is slightly better than the technically...
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You can get it with a capable Whiskey Lake processor, a 1080p or WQHD IPS panel and an optional LTE card slot, so you can take your business practically anywhere. It also has one significant feature that distinguishes it from the more budget ThinkPad E490...
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Industrial build quality, The display doesn't use PWM to adjust its brightness levels (LG Display LP140WF3-SPD2), Pleasant spill-resistant keyboard with long travel and clicky feedback, Great I/O selection, Supports Thunderbolt, Charges with USB Type-C...
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Warms up under heavy load, Its display covers only 52% of sRGB (LG Display LP140WF3-SPD2), Micro SD instead of a full-sized SD card reader...
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Lenovo ThinkPad T490 is a great laptop for the average businessman. No matter whether you work with spreadsheets, SQL or other databases, or you are just traveling with your own work – this laptop is going to provide you with everything you need. In addit...
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The T-series is Lenovo's best-selling ThinkPad, with its promise of being the workhorse of the range. This year's model doesn't have the hot swappable battery feature that it's had in previous generations, but there are some meaningful improvements.For th...
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The cool thing about the ThinkPad T490 is that it costs under $1,600 and it's so great all-around. This really isn't an expensive machine for all of the things that it includes. It has the Core i7, the 16GB RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a 1440p Dolby Vision display...
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Joining its new ThinkPad X390 ultrabook comes the new Lenovo ThinkPad T490, a business laptop packing the latest Intel hardware alongside a 14-inch Ultra HD display, the latest security features, and the company's classic business notebook design. The mod...
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Excellent display and keyboard, Classic and durable ThinkPad design, Optional micro-SIM, IR cam, and PrivacyGuard, USB-C charging with rapid charge support, Numerous built-in ports...
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Battery doesn't make it through a full work day, Exterior easily forms fingerprint smudges...
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If you're looking for an ultrabook but aren't interested in the X Series and its new X390 model, the T490 is a nice substitute. Users enjoy a nice compromise between portability and performance, the model has a large variety of ports that drastically redu...
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Slimmer is better – or is it? The ThinkPad T490 is a radical redesign of the central ThinkPad series, the T series. Lenovo emphasizes a much improved mobility with a more compact, thinner, and lighter case. This begs the question whether Lenovo had to mak...
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sturdy case, more compact & lighter than the predecessor, various connection options, very comfortable input devices, bright & colorful low-power FHD LCD, above-average CPU performance, utilizes the 25 W version of the MX250, fan is turned off most of th...
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display with bad response times, no full-size SD card reader, Thunderbolt 3 with just two PCIe lanes, case is difficult to open, case gets hot under load, throttling during the stress test, coil whine & speaker noise, less flexible without PowerBridge...
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On paper, it is clear that the Lenovo ThinkPad T490 is the successor of the ThinkPad T480. But in reality, the design of the ThinkPad T490 is radically different, which makes it appropriate to call it a mix of the T480 and T480s rather than a straight suc...
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