Lenovo ThinkPad T490 laptop announced as special healthcare edition

[Redaktion]

Lenovo has announced the first T series ThinkPad of 2019. The Lenovo ThinkPad T490, the "bread-and-butter" model of the series, has been announced today as a special edition for the healthcare sector.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-T490-laptop-announced-as-special-healthcare-edition.406736.0.html

[sticky]

What do these have to do with healthcare? They're your standard bells and whistles on a laptop for extra cash. HP and Dell has them too.

[Dan Ridenhour]

The anti-microbial coating is likely the only healthcare specific thing... but seriously, having spent a lot of time around hospitals in the past year and developing software for a living... anything modern would be viewed as great stuff...  their software always looks half backed and their hardware is usually at least 5 years out of date.    They may charge $800 for a bag of saline but it sure isn't being spent on computers. 

[william harris payne]

Lenovo Flex 14 core i7-8550U gen 8 runs defender close to 100 degrees C. 4 physical, 8 logical cores. Performance decreased to apparently control temperature, measured by Open System Hardware and Task Manager Performance.

[LeQuack]

I see Lenovo still likes to put huge bezels (especially the bottom) around the screen, instead of giving us a 16:10 screen. Terrible design.

[Stoom]

Still 16:9 screen on a T-series? 

[sticky]

Making a laptop bezeless is not a magic trick but a trade-off.

Apart from IR webcam, top and bottom bezels usually contain wireless antennas for better reception capability, which the new consumer laptops are choosing to sacrifice for the sake of aesthetics, by putting them in the bottom chassis.

16:10 will likely never happen to T series, much less the X1 and P series.

[LeQuack]

Making a laptop bezeless is not a magic trick but a trade-off.

Apart from IR webcam, top and bottom bezels usually contain wireless antennas for better reception capability, which the new consumer laptops are choosing to sacrifice for the sake of aesthetics, by putting them in the bottom chassis.

16:10 will likely never happen to T series, much less the X1 and P series.

However 16:10 makes much more sense on a business laptop, where vertical space is always in demand.