Lenovo’s laptop with rollable screen possibly spotted – and I’m not sure whether it’s a great idea, or a disaster waiting to happen

Keep rollin’, rollin’, rollin’…

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News By Darren Allan published 20 December 2024

(Image credit: Evan Blass)
  • We’ve glimpsed possible pics of Lenovo’s new rollable laptop
  • The purported ThinkBook Plus is set to be shown off at CES 2025
  • The notebook looks similar to an earlier concept seen at MWC 2023

Lenovo seemingly has a laptop in the pipeline for CES 2025 with a unique twist in that the device has a screen which unrolls itself to make for a much taller portrait-style display.

This innovation from Lenovo was prototyped by the company last year, and now appears to have come to fruition (add in a healthy dollop of skepticism at this point, as there's no official word from Lenovo on this).

Well-known leaker Evan Blass shared pics of the laptop on X, noting that it’s a sixth-generation ThinkBook Plus and that it’s the first laptop with a ‘rollable’ screen, or the first to be commercially available anyway.

(Image credit: Evan Blass)

Lenovo is purportedly set to show off the ThinkBook at CES 2025, and it appears to be similar to a previous prototype device that was demoed at MWC 2023, as The Verge reports (check out the video below).

Essentially, you'd press a button on the side of the laptop chassis and the screen rolls up, out of the base, on some kind of sliding rail mechanism (and back down again when you’re done with using the embiggened display).

Lenovo made a rolling laptop - YouTube

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It’s only roll n’ roll (but I like it – or do I?)

If this laptop is real, fair play to Lenovo in being the first laptop vendor to innovate in producing an actual laptop that’s going to be on shelves (presumably in 2025) with a rollable display. Assuming these pictures are legit, of course, though Blass is one of the more reliable rumor peddlers out there.

The rollable screen isn’t a new concept and we’ve seen a few prototype devices along these lines. Furthermore, Samsung’s first rollable phone might debut next year, so 2025 could be the year that rollables really start, er, rolling out.

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