Lenovo has been showing off concept laptops with rollable OLED displays for the past few years. Now Lenovo is said to be preparing to turn that concept into a real device you can actually buy.
Evan Blass has shared a set of pictures to Leakmail subscribers that give us a first look at a new Lenovo ThinkBook Plus laptop that could debut at CES in January and hit the streets sometime later in 2025.
When the screen is retracted, the laptop looks a lot like any other notebook computer. But it has a mechanism that allows the screen to unroll and extend upward, doubling the amount of screen space available without the need to provide two physical displays.
Lenovo already offers a foldable laptop and a dual-screen laptop that give you similar amounts of screen space in a portable computer. But neither of those computers have a built-in keyboard. Instead you have to attach a keyboard or use a wireless keyboard when you want physical keys.
The new ThinkBook Plus is different in that it looks and functions more like a traditional laptop. There’s only a single device to carry and keep charged, and you can use it on your lap or a desk or table.
It’s also the latest in a long line of ThinkBook Plus devices that offer outside-the-box interpretations of the laptop form factor. Previous model have included a hybrid devices that run Windows and Android, models with E Ink and OLED displays, and notebooks with a second screen next to the keyboard, just to name a few recent examples.
Given how frequently Lenovo completely changes the design of its ThinkBook Plus lineup, it’s unclear if the ThinkBook Plus Rollable will be a one-off or if this it could be the company’s first experimental approach toward a new direction of laptop computers.
But I will say that after having spent some time with a GPD Duo dual-screen laptop that combines a built-in keyboard with two screens stacked one on top of the other, I find this sort of design to be surprisingly compelling for heavy-duty multitasking, and I hope we see more companies move in this direction.
There’s no word from Blass on exactly when the Lenovo rollable laptop is expected to hit the streets or how much it’ll cost. But given the unusual technology involved, I wouldn’t expect it to be cheap.
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