Enough with the cheap screens, Lenovo: Low-end screen of ThinkPad E14 Gen 6 should not be a thing anymore

Who buys Lenovo ThinkPad laptops? In most cases, the answer is: Big corporations. For such customers, who will issue these devices to their employees as work laptops, the screen quality may not be a top priority, especially if the laptops are mostly connected to an external screen. Thus, as regrettable as it is, cheap screen options continue to plague the entry level configurations of business laptop series, like the ThinkPads or HP's EliteBook series, out of economic necessity.

When it comes to "entry level", the Lenovo ThinkPad E series seems to be the definition for that category of laptop. However, importantly, this model series is different from the other ThinkPads in a key respect: It does not target big enterprise customers. Rather, Lenovo sells models like the Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 6 AMD (available from Amazon), which we recently reviewed, as "small and medium business laptops", made for self-employed people and small companies.

In such cases, the screen quality would usually be more important than for the big corporations, as external screens are more rare and individual customers tend to value the screen quality higher. Yet, the E series continues to be saddled with the same sad and cheap screens that only support a limited color gamut, which results in dull, muted and wrong colors.

We know from talks with OEMs that screen with a better color gamut are not that much more expensive. The difference certainly matters when you order thousands of laptops, but when you only buy five, not so much. Thus, we think Lenovo should stop offering the E series with screens that are not able to display the sRGB color gamut - small business customers, students and other people interested in an affordable ThinkPad laptop simply deserve better, and they will probably appreciate the E series more if the screen quality was better.