Lenovo ThinkPad T490 Ultrabook Review

[@BunchaNothin]

Wish I could like this video a second time. Great job, subscribed!

[@BsianTech]

Hi isthisgoodenoughyoutube, welcome to my videos and lol thank you for your support and sub. It would be interesting to see if two likes remove a dislike in the land of KZbin hahah. I hope our journey together on KZbin will be full of useful information and entertaining as well. Thanks again.

[@jambaydorji5260]

I am buying a coorporate workhorse, Thinkpad T490. It's a dream machine.

[@BsianTech]

Jambay Dorji you are right the T490 are great workhorses that will last and are very serviceable as well.

[@zaori2785]

Wait till you see the t480 ;)

[@tek2313]

I don't understand why did they remove the external battery? We already have the X1 carbon thinner and lighter with no external battery? Why ruining the T-Series?

[@BsianTech]

I agree with you having the battery external for easy swap was one feature really loved especially to a lot of business people who go on long flights but then these days those that do run long periods have now moved over to the laptop power banks so really playing with the batteries usually techs trying to resolve faults.

[@sosguy1893]

Nice job on the video, thanks

[@davitcristiansimanjuntak3618]

If this laptop falls to the floor what affects the quality of the battery on the laptop? because since the laptop fell, the laptop battery became leaky, previously there was no leak in the laptop battery. Please infoo, dude🙏

[@xpusostomos]

It seems like the T14 is the spiritual successor to this

[@BsianTech]

Hi xpusostomos, yes the T14 is the 2020 model version of the T490. I am awaiting for it to arrive in my hands, both the T14 (Intel) and T14 (AMD).

[@MrMmDonuts]

The review at notebookcheck mentioned some slight coil whine on the T490. Did you notice any coil whine on the T490?

[@anniel1193]

This looks same type like t480 clone and same features & configuration I like t480 fingerprint scanner button on right side than t490. Also no backlight keyboard in t490

[@NotGettinAny]

Which brand do you think offers the best buisness class range of laptops?

[@BsianTech]

Hi NotGettingAny, these are the brands of business laptops I have dealt in the past; Dell, Lenovo, HP, Acer, Microsoft, Apple and Toshiba. I know there are others and I have played and worked off them in a personal environment. From my experience as I support these I look at these laptops in a different matter and judge them. I have worked for small organisation (10-15 staff) and large organisation (5000+ staff). Besides looking at what each offers individual my big thing is I really look at the service of after sales support and ease and turn around time to get business laptops back into normal operation. My experience is in Australia so this would differ in each country. Back to your question if you asking for best range of business laptops in short in my experience I would single out Lenovo overall. What are your thoughts for business laptops, which brands have you dealt with I love to hear your thoughts?

[@NotGettinAny]

@@BsianTech I have worked on the Dell latitude series previously and always thought they were very solid. Showed no real signs of slowdown or wear after a few years of fairly aggressive use. A few people in our other office recently managed to wrangle some of the Dell XPS series which to me seems like overkill but I wouldn't mind one myself......

[@BsianTech]

@@NotGettinAny I have a few brands running around though the percentage of Dells are high, overall I have found the Lenovo have much lower failure rate/ratio.

[@adam-nw5cn]

cool laptop, watching this on my t490

[@BsianTech]

Which spec did you get and how do you find the T490 for your use?

[@adam-nw5cn]

@@BsianTech I hv the i5 with a dedicated Nvidia card. Its a solid laptop 10/10 🔥🔥🔥

[@BsianTech]

@@adam-nw5cn Oh very nice, the one I had to play with didn't have the Geforce MX250. Good to see you found it being a solid laptop, great purchase!

[@ZzZz-yb5eo]

How much brightness nits does your model have?

[@adam-nw5cn]

@@ZzZz-yb5eo 250 nits

[@chandralekha1231]

Do you suggest this or Dell latitude 7400 with the same configuration?

[@suitinaute]

Great review. Well done.

[@ShytFerBraynes]

Thank you!

[@farouktouhami6024]

Is it good for graphic design work ( cpu i5 ) ?!

[@wrabeengrg]

Do you know any site about how can we know technical specifications of hp laptops like psref for Lenovo?

[@BsianTech]

Hi Wrabiin Grz, they don't have a central area for it like Lenovo, what you are after for HP technical specs are called Quickspecs. Just do a google search for "quickspecs " I was informed by HP this is the best method.

[@wrabeengrg]

BsianDad Thanks... but I wanted to check Envy x360 15 ryzen 7 in Japanese Hp store online and as far as screen brightness was my concern,it isn’t mentioned there neither I’m able to customize display.So,I thought I could figure out details from the product number.

[@mutsetha2150]

can you make video to show me how to input sim card to optional uSIM?

[@mrvoke9605]

I'd like to get a response to this too

[@fs9050]

10th gen Intel is still not available in AUS!

[@BsianTech]

Hi F S, yes the 10th Gen not available yet in Australia. I contacted Lenovo and it is in their roadmap to release it end of this year or near the start of next year 2020 for Australia. Will be getting a better date from them.

[@JasonGafar]

'It can take a fair a bit of abuse.' Calls Mike Tyson.

[@BsianTech]

Should be okay mate, laptop has no ears to bite into =D.

[@JasonGafar]

@@BsianTech hahahahaha. Just one question: I just purchased a T490 and it should be arriving in the mail in a couple of days. I purchased one without the Dolby gloss-free display. The display is like 1080 or something. Do you by chance know if that's pretty good? I currently have a T480 and its display was something around 760 or so. Display is awful considering how new and expensive that machine is. Was hoping I wouldn't encounter the same problem.

[@BsianTech]

@@JasonGafar you will welcome the nice bump up in resolution from HD to FHD. The one thing about the FHD is the screen brightness, at 250 nits (for non touch screen) and 300 nits (Touch screen) you might struggle a bit outdoors. Though it will still be brighter than the T480 HD version which was 200 nits. Else I'm sure you will like the little upgrade you got there =).

[@shahidimran7668]

I purchased new one . Fan is running all the time as soon as I start the computer. Any solution. Please let me know pretty annoying.brand new machine , 16 GB ram . Fan should not run all time . Shahid from Calgary

[@BsianTech]

Hi shahid imran, first check in task manager if anything is running in the background that is taking the CPU on load or not. If the CPU is only running say 1-5%, first thing to do is to do a System Update via the Lenovo System Update software hoping there will be a BIOS update. If the BIOS update didn't slow down the fan then I would go into BIOS and look at the thermal options set. As it could be set by accidentally set to performance mode.

[@fhoofe3245]

soldered RAM....blah