Lenovo ThinkPad T490 (2019) vs Dell Latitude 7410

The Lenovo ThinkPad T490 20N2-0022US (2019) is a great Traditional Laptop for its $803 asking price.

The Dell Latitude 7410 i5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, however, while a reasonable product for $1812, doesn't stack up against its competitors quite as well. If you're considering Traditional Laptops in the $2,100 range, you might want to check out some better options.

The Lenovo ThinkPad T490 20N2-0022US (2019) was loved by reviewers at PCmag, a highly trusted source that performs reliable in-depth testing. It did great in its "The Best Lenovo Laptops for 2021" roundup where it was named its "Best for Fleet Deployments, Mainstream Business Use", which, in itself, makes it a product worth considering.

Moving on to the Dell Latitude 7410 i5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD: it was unable to reach the very top of any roundups from sources that conduct reliable and unbiased testing. Nonetheless, it still managed to impress reviewers from a number of such sites, like Laptop Mag, Notebookcheck.net, PCmag, Android Authority, and Wirecutter (NYTimes), enough for them to include them on those lists.

We examined all of the review data that we could find and first took a look at sources that reviewed both of them, like PCmag, and found that they haven't shown a preference for either product.

Then we checked which sources liked these two Traditional Laptops best and found that the Lenovo ThinkPad T490 20N2-0022US (2019) got its highest, 9, review score from reviewers at slashgear.com, whereas the Dell Latitude 7410 i5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD earned its best score of 9 from Laptop Mag.

Lastly, we averaged out all of the reviews scores that we could find on these two products and compared them to other Traditional Laptops on the market. We learned that both of them performed far better than most of their competitors - the overall review average earned by Traditional Laptops being 7.6 out of 10, whereas the Lenovo ThinkPad T490 20N2-0022US (2019) and Dell Latitude 7410 i5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD managed averages of 8.0 and 8.6 points, respectively.

Due to the difference in their prices, however, it's important to keep in mind that a direct Lenovo ThinkPad T490 20N2-0022US (2019) vs. Dell Latitude 7410 i5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD comparison might not be entirely fair - some sources don't take value for money into account when assigning their scores and therefore have a tendency to rate more premium products better.