Lenovo's ThinkPad division gets hit by another leak, as a reddit user has published data-sheets for most of the upcoming ThinkPad business laptops. Though there is no way to verify the specs at this point, the specs of the T490 do line up with the already announced special T490 Healthcare Edition.

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Not long after a roadmap of the upcoming T series was leaked, another huge leak occured. This time, the data-sheets of most of the ThinkPad 2019 lineup were leaked by a user on the ThinkPad-subreddit. The core of this leak are the data-sheets of the new ThinkPad T series with Intel processors, namely the ThinkPad T490, the ThinkPad T490s and the ThinkPad T590 (as well as its workstation-brother ThinkPad P53s). According to the data-sheets, all of these models will be available in June.

Disclaimer: We can not verify these specifications, but they do seem legit, as the leaked specs of the T490 line up with the recently announced special T490 Healthcare Edition.

Lenovo ThinkPad T490s: Much more "X1-Carbon-like" than before

The ThinkPad T490s is the tenth model of the T400s series, which always was the most premium model of the T series business line. The T490s retains this role, but its completely revamped design is much closer to the X1 Carbon now compared with the ThinkPad T480s.

The chassis of the T490s will be thinner than the T480s, with the thinnest-version just being 16.95 mm thick. The bezels around the screen are slightly reduced, although the difference does not appear to be huge. As the T480s, the T490s will be available in a black and a silver version, but different from the T480s, the silver version will include an aluminum lid now – the black version continues to rely on a Carbon fiber material. Another change to the outer design happens at the keyboard deck, as the T490s has a new bottom-load keyboard more tightly integrated into the palmrest.

Probably even more drastically than outside changes to the design is what Lenovo is doing on the inside: Instead of having a combination of soldered RAM and a single RAM slot, the memory is all soldered now. As the maximum amount of memory, Lenovo will offer 32 GB of DDR4 RAM. While the T480s had the option for a dGPU, the T490s does not offer any dedicated option. Also, Lenovo drops the full-size SD card slot for a MicroSD card reader, a trend that is happening on many laptop lines these days. Last but not least, there is no more full-size RJ45 Ethernet port on the T490s – instead, Lenovo wants its users to rely on a proprietary mini-Ethernet dongle for native Ethernet.

The last area with drastic changes are the displays: Lenovo continues to offer FHD (1,920 x 1,080) IPS screens with 250 nits of brightness, but with this year update, there are a few more options: A FHD IPS ePrivacy 300 nits panel as well as an all-new low-power FHD IPS panel with 300 to 400 nits. Also, Lenovo swaps its pretty underwhelming QHD (2,560 x 1,440) 300 nit option for a 500 nit QHD screen with Dolby Vision support and 100 % AdobeRGB color gamut – it seems finally, Lenovo is putting in some better quality screens into its new T series.