Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable: Rolling out your future laptop?

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Ever thought you needed a laptop with a taller display? Lenovo at CES 2025 showed off what can be considered the first commercially available rollable laptop. The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable joins a line of experimental laptops from Lenovo. Unrolled, it inconspicuously looks like your typical 14-inch laptop. But with a button press, the Samsung Display flexible OLED unfurls into a 16.7-inch vertical screen.

The laptop is meant to give you that extra-screen real estate without the bulk associated with dual-screen laptops. The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable is rated for at least 30,000 lid hinge cycles and 20,000 roll cycles (up and down).

But there are limitations. The Verge reported seeing visible creases on the screen. It also can't support external displays. Lenovo explains that Windows treats the bottom half of the screen as a secondary monitor. At this time, Microsoft doesn't support this kind of display configuration. That also means you can't directly snap windows or apps to the bottom section of the extended display. However, Lenovo created a workaround for this issue through its built-in software.

As for this laptop's regular specs, the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable runs on up to an Intel Core Ultra 7 Series 2 processor with Intel Arc Xe2 graphics, up to 32GB of LPDDR5x RAM, up to 1TB PCIe Gen4 SSD storage, and a 66Wh battery.

This innovative laptop comes at a hefty price, of course. Lenovo plans to release the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable in June at a starting price of US$3,499 (around CA$4,998).

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