I was fortunate to obtain a Healthcare Edition T490 with a i5 8365-u, uhd620 graphics, 8gbram at the start of the pandemic to replace a dying 2010 macmini core2duo. Best acquisition I ever made. I added an additional 8gb of ram for a total of 16gb, and added a WDSN750 SSD. I also paired it with the Lenovo tb3 docking connected to a Razer core x external GPU. This thing is a beast of a workhorse! The i5 8365-u is more than enough to handle all of my heavy music DAW processes with ease. When it comes to laptpops, the T-series is the one for me.

Going to buy it in this week

i like thinkpad

Hi Andy, thanks for your video. I'm trying to compare refurbished Thinkpads to buy a machine for the sole purpose of online teaching/video conferencing. Would this be a good option or would you recommend a different model? Many thanks

Hello Andy, i have two used ThinkPad choices; X280 (around 1.1Kg weight) and T490 (1.45Kg weight), both are the exact same specs (same i7 8th gen CPU mode, same 16GB RAM, same everything), i know that X290 is 12.5" while T490 is 14", but i don't actually care about the display size, also X280 has the 16GB RAM soldered, whereas T490 has 16GB soldered RAM plus a free RAM slot, but for these type of business laptops i don't really think anyone would need more than 16GB RAM, since if you need to use applications that can utilize more than 16GB RAM, i think this will result in a very high CPU usage which both models cannot handle the high amount of heat resulted from the 2.6GHz+ frequency, so i really confused here with which laptop model to go; X280 or T490 ??

I have one of these, which I purchased recently to replace a T460. Mine has the regular LCD, not the glossy one. I get similar battery life (~4.5 hours) to what you are getting, at full brightness and with all power-saving features disabled (I find them annoying). It was actually worse than that until I upgraded to the latest BIOS/UEFI. For my purposes, I don't care, but they shouldn't have gotten rid of the external battery. My biggest complaint is with the keyboard, which has much worse travel than the T460 and generally feels worse. I really don't like this keyboard, and it's kind of shameful that the once-great Thinkpad keyboards switched to chiclets and then sunk to this level. I also wish that this had a serial port. Otherwise, it's a better machine than the T460, and I've enjoyed it.

@davidfirth1

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I had a T460s at work for a couple years. My average in corporate life was 5 hours per charge. The T440s I had before that was also about 5 hours per charge. My current corporate issued P50? Yup. about 5 hours per charge. I'm seeing a pattern for the base battery configurations with my brightness and settings.

If undervolt this model its a BEAST!!! It out performs my ps5 for gaming.

@ericjauregui3089

3 жыл бұрын

I also use my t490 i5 and razer core x (2060super) for all my gaming needs now. No more console crap for me.

i just bought one from ebay for £500 the specs are very high end i7, 512gb, 16gb

Would you recommend the i5 model if you don't do anything like video editing or heavy tasks?

@AndrewThrasher1987

3 жыл бұрын

For sure. On these 8th gen ultrabook CPUs the i5 runs cooler while the thermals greatly limit any advantage the i7 would have.

@lukas6839

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewThrasher1987 Thanks for the answer 👍. I think also the 250 nit Full hd is not as great, but more power efficient.

@ezmod0

3 жыл бұрын

@@lukas6839 250 nit? don't do this to yourself.. don't they usually have an 400nit low power 1080p option?

@lukas6839

3 жыл бұрын

@@ezmod0 I'm looking for a used version, it's the only option available.

Random question... What stock app is that?

@AndrewThrasher1987

6 ай бұрын

It's the Webull desktop app.

Lenovo Nice 👍👍

Keys/arrows are a complete misunderstanding and probably not for a long use (typing on it and using arrows). I know they are not the worst (=the smallest) but not profiled correctly and thus, erggonomy of this chassis simply s...s :(