You Can Actually Buy Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Rollable Laptop

I don’t recommend watering your laptop like your plants. Good thing, then, that you don’t need a green thumb for Lenovo’s latest 14-inch laptop to watch it grow. The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Rollable—one we’ve already seen in leaks— turns a 14-inch OLED display into a 16.7-inch screen with a click of a button. It’s not a mere concept product. It’s real, and you can buy it for a whopping $3,500.

Lenovo claims the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable offers 50% more screen once you press a key or use another hand gesture. If you want to scroll through a longer Excel file or feel like a hacker man as your screen unrolls before your eyes, the ThinkBook Rollable might fit the bill. The device features vertical splitscreen for multiple windows, though I personally would probably prefer a widescreen for dealing with multiple documents.

The ThinkBook Rollable is powered with an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor, though Lenovo didn’t specify which SKUs will be available. Otherwise, it’s a relatively standard small laptop with two Thunderbolt 4 ports, up to 32 GB of RAM, and a 66 Whr battery.

There’s several laptops that promise to enhance screen space, like the Asus Zenbook Duo and Lenovo’s own Yoga Book 9i. There’s also a growing number of foldable laptops with flexible screens that usually suffer from lackluster performance and over-sized designs. The ThinkBook Rollable may have more moving parts that lead to failure, though it also seems more in line with typical laptop design that doesn’t require the processing power and battery to facilitate two screens at once.

With the added screen, the laptop still weighs around 3.7 pounds. That’s not heavy, but not what most would consider first for a light laptop. It’s 19.9 mm, or .8 inches thick when closed up. There’s only one, grey color option, so as much as it looks like an anomaly it’s a very business-focused device. For that price, you could look for two solid laptops with similar specs and still have money left over. Is having a 16.7-inch vertically-minded display worth it? If all you want is to watch code scale down your PC screen like in The Matrix, then perhaps. It may also give you an edge playing old school arcade games like Asteroids.

Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable turns into a 16.7-inch display with a button, but it costs $3,500.

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