Once upon a time, a 16:9 laptop computer display was sufficient. Well, at CES 2025 Lenovo posed the query ‘Why accept sufficient when you may have top?’ Either with the press of a button or by holding your palm as much as the onboard webcam, the display of the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable laptop computer extends upwards. Presenting with a seemingly typical 14-inch OLED display at first blush, the ThinkBook can unfurl right into a 16.7-inch display with a really awkward-looking 8:9 side ratio.
What’s extra, this is not only a idea delivered to life to show just a few heads at a commerce present. Lenovo shared in a weblog publish that you’ll choose up your individual Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable when it launches globally this June—for $3,499. But, even setting that hefty price ticket to at least one facet, I’m undecided why you’d wish to.
Okay, certain, one may argue just a few use circumstances. To start with, having that further display house tucked up within the Rollable’s metaphorical again pocket will enchantment to those that must journey loads and would in any other case be packing a transportable monitor. The extendable a part of the display can be arrange as a digital monitor, providing an uncluttered partition of display actual property for digital displays on the go. Alternatively, you possibly can as a substitute choose to muddle up this a part of the display with the ThinkBook’s customized number of multitasking widgets or your most ceaselessly used information.
Personally, I believe you possibly can dream even smaller. Say you feel tremendous petty throughout an in-person assembly going nowhere—you possibly can say, “I’m undecided we’re on the identical web page. Let me pull up my notes,” earlier than busting out the ThinkBook’s risk show.
Joking apart, the ThinkBook stays pretty light-weight, weighing round 1.7 kg (3.7 lbs), even with its shapeshifting display. This is because of Samsung’s Eco² OLED know-how which not solely gives a much less hefty bundle general but in addition consumes 30% much less energy. Outputting 400nits, that is not solely spectacular however BRIGHT too. Samsung themselves introduced in a latest information publish that that is the primary time their rollable OLED has been a part of a mass-produced laptop computer.
For people in search of productiveness on the go, the laptop computer additionally gives comparatively first rate technical specs, with 1 TB of onboard SSD storage, 32 GB of RAM, and an Intel Core Ultra 7 CPU. This chip’s built-in Intel Xe2 GPU means that is largely a machine that is largely about work and never a lot play although.
While transformative screens are a celebration trick that continues to attract my consideration, it is arduous to disregard how flexibility like this has the potential to introduce numerous factors of failure. Engadget famous in a latest CES present flooring video that even the show unit reveals noticeable “ripples” on the unrollable a part of the display, although clarified that this is not noticeable if you’re trying on the laptop computer straight on. Still, I’m left questioning how these very minor defects might metamorphose over the product’s lifespan—the hefty price ticket does little to endear me both.
All of that mentioned, screens merely aren’t going to look the identical ceaselessly—the rise of curved screens has confirmed that (and for those who’re available in the market for one your self, we are able to supply just a few recommendations). Perhaps, just like the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable, I merely have to increase my horizons.
