Last year's Core i7-12700H was fast, but the switch to Zen 4 has done wonders to battery life and efficiency without needing to sacrifice performance. The OLED display, fast integrated GPU, and affordable price point make the Pavilion Plus 14 an excellent option for students and most casual editors.
Lenovo has a bunch already, but more is welcome in this case.
available in the US? i only see some thinkpads with horrible soldered wifi cards
Checking their website again, I see that I wasn’t looking closely enough at the Ryzen model numbers, considering that the 3rd digit now indicates the generation. The only Zen 4 laptops I saw from Lenovo were ThinkPad, Legion, and LOQ. The only one out of those that is non-gaming is the ThinkPad. The ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 was reviewed recently (I forget by whom, maybe NoteBookCheck) and it was found to be overall better than its Intel counterpart.
However, as you’ve noted, the wifi cards are soldered in. Horrible decision by Lenovo.