Lenevo ThinkPad T490 vs T495

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Here we are comparing Lenevo ThinkPad T490 and Lenevo ThinkPad T495.

Lenevo ThinkPad T490	Lenevo ThinkPad T495
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Starting at:$1,217.30	Starting at:$1,026.27

Key Features

Technical Specification

DESIGN

Lenevo ThinkPad T490:

This is an awesome matte black finish traveling professional laptop. The case material itself is made out of a hard plastic material. It’s very thinner and lighter and a great traveling laptop.

The T490 is the latest generation of Lenovo’s. And the T series is the most popular ThinkPad that exists. It has slimmer bezels, Lenovo claims that it has 22% slimmer bezels than it did in the last generation.

Lenevo ThinkPad T495:

The new Lenovo ThinkPad T495 is the best business laptop. It is very thin, light in weight and easy to carry anywhere. It’s an adorable design with that military standard grade tested.  The material used here to build this laptop is very nice and smooth, so you going to like the quality of this laptop when you hold this.  You can easily open the lid of this laptop with one hand without any problem.

DISPLAY

Lenevo ThinkPad T490:

This is a beautiful 14-inch Wide Quad HD(WQHD) HDR Dolby vision IPS display. With a resolution of 2560×1440. It is very glossy, with 500 nits of brightness. This covers color gamut extremely well with 100% sRGB, 100% Adobe RGB display. There are several options available for display, So you can choose which you want.

On top of the 14-inch display, you have a hybrid webcam. The webcam is about 720p but you also have infrared which makes it a hybrid webcam with the infrared connection that allows you to use Windows Hello to log in with your face recognization. Next to the webcam, you have your dual field microphones.

Lenevo ThinkPad T495:

This is a 14-inch display with 1920×1080 of resolution. It is an anti-glare display with 400 nits of brightness. It is very light in weight so you can just open with one finger. There is a 720p camera available on the top of the display, with both speakers and microphones on both sides of the camera.

WEIGHT & DIMENSIONS

Lenevo ThinkPad T490:

Weight of this laptop is 1.5 Kg with 12.95 x 8.94 x 0.70(inches) dimensions.

Lenevo ThinkPad T495:

This is a 1.5Kg laptop with 13.03×8.94×0.7(inches) of dimensions

PERFORMANCE

Lenevo ThinkPad T490:

When it comes to performance this laptop doesn’t disappoint you. This is an Intel Core i7 8565U with 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD NVMe and, a clock speed of 1.8 GHz. The base speed is 1.99 GHz. There’s no more hard drive inside. Now the SSD storage is both large and affordable depending on the drive that you get.

This is not a gaming laptop although you can get an optional MX 250 GPU which will give you a little bit more horsepower to do things such as video editing. You can play some old title games on this if you turn down on settings, But you can’t play new titles very well on this that’s because of lack of GPU. You can connect an external GPU if you want to.

When it comes to the thermals, when you’re doing everyday tasks it stayed relatively cool didn’t get overly hot, but when you did put it under heavy load it starts to get warm and you will notice the fan will kick in also it wasn’t overly loud, annoying and that was good.

Lenevo ThinkPad T495:

This is gonna be a great system. This is an AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 3700U(2.30GHz, up to 4.0GHz Max Boost, 4 cores, 4MB Cache) processor that available with Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro. There is also available Vega 10 Graphics, 8GB of memory, and 256GB SSD PCIe for storage. They also provide Intel 9260 Wireless AC(2×2) and a Bluetooth 5.0 for network connectivity.

PORT SELECTION

Lenevo ThinkPad T490:

On your right-hand side we have a smart card reader which is optional, one RJ45 or Ethernet port right next to that, you have your vents and we have 13.1 USB always-on charging.

On your left-hand side we have one Type-C connection port which allows you to connect your adapter for power, you have your ThinkPad connector which allows you to connect a docking station but inside that docking station connection you also have a Thunderbolt 3 Type-C connection, you have an additional 3.1 USB port and HDMI ports, combo audio jack which allows you to connect a headphone or a headphone with a mic and a micro sim SD card slot.

On the backside you can get a sim tray which is optional.

Lenevo ThinkPad T495:

On the left side there is a USB-C AC power, USB-C, Ethernet extension, USB 3.1, HDMI 2.0, a headphone and mic two in one jack and a MicroSD card reader.

On the right side there is a Smart card reader, USB 3.1, RJ45 and a Kensington lock slot available.

There is a wireless wide area network(WWAN) available on the backside.

KEYBOARD & TOUCHPAD

Lenevo ThinkPad T490:

There are no issues with this keyboard, and the distance between the two keys is very good so you can type very smoothly. There is a backlight available on the keyboard so you can easily work in the dark. You can also turn it off when you don’t need it.

There is a trackpad located below the keyboard. It is very smooth to use and two-finger gestures. You can also have a joystick as an alternative use, which is located on the keyboard.

On the right side of the touchpad, there is a fingerprint scanner available so you can unlock with your fingerprint.

Lenevo ThinkPad T495:

The keyboard is very smooth to use. Distance between keys is also good so you can type very fast and smoothly. It has a backlight on the keyboard so you can use it even in a low light place. You can also turn it off while you don’t need it so it can also save a little bit battery.

The Trackpad is located below the keyboard. It is very smooth to use. You can also use it with the two-finger gesture. They also give you a red joystick as an alternative use. Which is located on the keyboard.

They also provide a fingerprint scanner on the right side of the touchpad, so you can simply unlock your laptop with your finger.

SPEAKERS

Lenevo ThinkPad T490:

Speakers are located on the top of the keyboard and left side of the power button.

Lenevo ThinkPad T495:

It has stereo speakers. It is a business laptop so it doesn’t have enough good quality of sound, but still, you can enjoy it.

BATTERY

Lenevo ThinkPad T490:

There is a 65-Watt USB Type-C fast charger that comes with this laptop. There is a 50Wh battery available on this laptop. There is no external battery spot on this laptop so you won’t be able to connect an external battery. This can gives you about 7 to 8 hours of battery life. It can charge your laptop up to 80% in just 1 hour.

Lenevo ThinkPad T495:

There is a 65W Ac adapter with USB Type-C. So it can charge your laptop very quickly. It also has a 50Wh battery with Rapid-charging Technology. This can give you approximately 6.5 hours of battery life.

WHICH TO BUY?

So at the end after comparing these both laptops I found Lenovo ThinkPad T490 very useful. It has much better performance and specification than T495 according to this price. It is very light in weight so you can carry this anywhere. So according to me, you can invest your money on T490, it well worth it.

Jignesh

I'm Jignesh Prajapati, a passionate tech enthusiast from Ahmedabad, India. In 2016, I took a bold leap, leaving my job to embark on a blogging journey. Despite exploring various niches, my heart found its true calling in technology. Today, I am the proud Founder and CEO of my tech blog - The World's Best and Worst