Lenovo unveils world's first rollable display laptop, the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable, at CES 2025

The world's first rollable display laptop is coming to market in 2025

News By John Loeffler published 7 January 2025

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After a couple of years of development, the world's first rollable display laptop, the Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable, was finally unveiled at CES 2025.

The laptop, which can transition from a 14-inch landscape display to a 16.7-inch vertical display with a single button press, was first shown off two years ago as a concept device, but has now made the transition to production for 2025.

Powered by the Intel Core Ultra 200V series (up to a Core Ultra 7), the laptop will also feature up to 32GB of LPDDR5x memory and up to 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD storage. As a Lunar Lake-powered laptop, it'll also feature Intel Xe2 graphics, making it a good, lightweight choice for graphic designers who do a lot of work on portrait documents.

Throw in Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 connectivity, 2x2W Harman/Kardon speakers, and a dual mic array with 5MP IR webcam, and you have more than a niche laptop with a cool gimmick, but a powerful mobile workstation machine for professional users.

That said, the rollable display aspect of the laptop is the show stealer here, and anyone who values a vertical display, like software engineers or business users who work with a lot of documents, are going to be hard-pressed to find another laptop like the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable.

More than a cool form factor, the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable is genuinely functional in a way other laptops can't be

Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Hands-On: Rollable Screen That Expands to 16.7 Inches! - YouTube

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The clamshell laptop form factor is one of those designs that I'd considered a 'solved problem'. If you want a portable computer, this is the best way to design it, with a display that folds down onto the keyboard.

And since the keyboard layout is also a solved problem, laptops are mostly stuck with a landscape orientation, with older 4:3 ratio displays being the tallest they've been able to practically be.

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