It looks like Lenovo’s next ThinkBook Plus laptop will have a rolling screen. According to pictures Lenovo’s sixth-generation ThinkBook Plus will feature an extendable, rolling display that builds on the The company first launched in 2022.
The leaked images show a laptop with a conventional, albeit slightly larger than average, display that can be rolled out and unrolled until you essentially have two screens stacked on top of each other. Lenovo’s images show a video call open at the top of the display and what looks like a PowerPoint presentation at the bottom, but you can imagine the possibilities for what you can use the extra screen real estate for are pretty limitless. Blass did not provide any further technical details about the new ThinkBook Plus, but with Although January is only a few weeks away, it is very likely that the new laptop will be officially released soon.
Lenovo has been exploring the rollable laptop concept for a few years now, and this new ThinkBook Plus appears to be a direct descendant of the company’s previous concept device. Lenovo is also no stranger to making strange laptops. The from CES 2024 showed a display that could rotate and fold independently, and that Starting in 2023, two separate touchscreen displays have been merged to give owners even more screen real estate to play with.
So far, rollable displays have mainly been used in smartphone concepts and So if Lenovo can sell a laptop with a unique screen at an affordable price and guarantee that it won’t have any hardware issues, it could be a success. On the other hand, the previous fifth generation — a Windows computer if you have a keyboard connected and an Android tablet if you don’t have one connected — started at $2,000, so it might be wrong to expect affordability.
