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Review on Notebook DELL LATITUDE 3490 (1366x768, Intel Core i3 2.3GHz, RAM 4 GB, HDD 500 GB, Win10 Pro) by Hemant Negi ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Good product, more pros than cons.

Comments on "weaknesses": Personally, I'm satisfied with the plastic case, but of course it loses the soft-touch finish of the thinkpad. For some this may be important. My Thinkpad x240 looks better both inside and out. The lack of sleep mode indication just struck me. I have never seen a laptop that does not flicker with something when sleeping. Why did Dell do this? Moreover, neighboring Dell models have this indication and what else! The main disappointment is the battery. When discharging, there is often an instantaneous drop from 20-30% to 7%, that is, the battery controller incorrectly reports the remaining capacity. This happens especially often if the battery was not fully charged initially, and I used to keep it charged at 80 percent to reduce wear. In view of such a glitch with the battery, numerous chips of this laptop related to adaptive charging lose their meaning. I have never seen such glitches in Thinkpad. The touchpad sometimes does not notice the moment of touch and then does not respond to pointer movements, you need to create a touch event for it again. It's not buzzing, but the touchpad on the Thinkpad x240 annoyed me more. The touchpad is a clickpad and rattles. Downvolting seemed to withstand ~ 110mV, there were no blue screens, but Prime very quickly found errors in the calculations. At the same time, the operating frequency increased by 400 megahertz. In general, you should not risk stability. ate: Windows 7 is up and running. A manual hex-patch of the Windows 7 HD620 firewood libraries appeared on the Internet so that they work on the UHD620. You can find, for example, in the ixbt conference in the drivers section. It seems to be functioning normally but there is no hardware video encoding. There is decoding, but no encoding. There is no touchpad driver, but it works like a ps/2 mouse. The rest of the firewood can be found in addition to what fundamentally will not work in Win7. What's funny - only in Win7 the power button flickers in sleep mode :) And I was wrong about the Free Fall Sensor - it needs firewood, but they are in the Linux kernel and in Win 7-10

Pros
  • Strict ascetic laptop for work - the best of what I found in an acceptable budget. As far as I can tell, Ubuntu 18.04 works out of the box without problems, and 16.04 is generally officially supported by the manufacturer. Price. A business-class laptop cost me 44k offline with Win10 Pro preinstalled. New 8250u quad-core processor with an extended TDP of 22W, which allows all cores to run at 2.66GHz for a long time. The cooling system is weak, but better than that of competitors - at least the blowing does not go into the screen hinge, but into a decent-sized hole. Built-in graphics allows you to play Starcraft2 at high settings (the laptop howls of course) Two memory slots and only one 8GB bar was occupied. Although the color gamut is truncated, the screen is matte IPS. Keyboard backlight. The drop sensor that parks the disk heads works at the "BIOS" level, i. E. unlike Thinkpad, firewood is not needed. Pah-pah iron everything works stably like a rock, although I haven’t checked some of its parts, such as USB-C, and it’s unlikely when I check
Cons
  • Cheap plastic case. Complete lack of indication of sleep-waiting mode. The battery behaves buggy, but the actual capacity is equal to the declared one. The touchpad works equally imperfectly both in Windows and in Linux. IMHO, a large laptop for 14 inches - but maybe it's durable? HDD can be put only 7mm, although the laptop does not look small. the main M.2 slot is SATA only. There is also a PCI-E M.2 slot, but it is not clear what it is for. Downvolting did not bring happiness. I could not install Windows7 (well, the dog is with her).