An affordable and safe 14" ? Help me choose one

Aquila

Hello guys, I'm looking for a good 14" with a full hd display ( the most important aspect is a good eye friendly display).
ThinkPad?
Thx a lot

eDenon-2

Aquila Lenovo Xiaoxin 14 Ryzen Version

Donux

Aquila Even if I use thinkpad, I do not think they make premium devices, even if they have premium lines. If I would be buying laptop I would be looking into:

Dell XPS, but investigate models very carefully. The key here is focus on more premium segment, that means they will not pick cheapest stuff
Asus / MSI and similar product lines (except OLED screens, unless it is trully flicker free). Would give especially big focus on maybe not so color accurate, but gaming laptops even if you do not game. Because those usually have different screens and always have dedicated graphics card (this is relavant for 1st point). Dedicated graphics are usually more polished in terms of signal output into the panel, and/or give more tweaking options. Also, seen quite a few professionals use these very confotably (architecture design and similar trades).
For Macs, I am mixed there. Maybe macbook M1 14, but can not guarantee. It a total lottery, as in my opinion they had chip shortages when they were producing these, so some models are total garbage.

Overall, no matter what you pick it is still a lottery. There is no way that manufacturer has only one supplier for panel or other GPU parts. They have to have risk management in place, so alternative (or fishy) suppliers clearly can enter the game as they need to hit production targets to satisfy shareholders.

Aquila

eDenon-2 Next week I'll try the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s gen 4 (Amd)

Gurm

I'm gonna throw in a vote for Dell Latitude 74XX series.

I use these exclusively for work, and I can tolerate even semi-recent builds of Windows 10 on them.

I have a 7490 that has been my workhorse, but it's a 2018 machine and is showing its age in high-demand applications (still fine for farting around Windows and surfing the web). It is locked at 21h2 version of Windows 10 but I can use it literally for 12 hours straight with no or minimal eyestrain.

I've recently set up a 7420 with a much more recent version of Windows (22h2 with the latest patches, still locked at Windows 10 but it's flagged as "up to date", or was before 24hX came out) and it's also fine.

In general I'm finding that Intel chips with safe versions of Windows 10 work for me. BUT specifically you want the 1080p NON-touch, matte screen. OR the 1080p glossy touch screen. DEFINITELY not the 4k, not the matte touch. Haven't tried the glossy non-touch. My wife uses a 7420 with the matte touch screen and it's just not as comfy. And we played with a glossy touch screen and it was actually surprisingly fine for me, but that machine had to be returned for other reasons. I might still order one as my personal driver though.