Lenovo’s Latest Laptop Has a Rollable OLED Screen

Laptop screens can feel cramped. But what if you could magically just get more real estate without having to carry around a portable monitor? That’s precisely the purpose of Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable AI PC—yes, rollable. It has an OLED display that, with the push of a button, extends the 14-inch screen upward to make for an awkward aspect ratio, but roughly doubles the screen space to 16.7 inches. Two screens are better than one for productivity, but what if one screen could be two but still one? Yes.

It plays a fun animation and some music when it does its rolling thing. You can also activate the rolling action with a palm gesture; once it scans your palm, shift it up or down to raise or lower the screen. (Pressing the button on the keyboard is way faster.) You can take advantage of Windows 11 window snapping features to put apps one on top of the other. I stacked two browser windows, but you can put other apps below too. Considering I’m already that guy who brings a spare portable monitor everywhere, this just seems like a more elegant solution that takes up less space in my bag. And of course, anyone can take advantage of the long aspect ratio to get a better look at documents, PDFs, and web pages.

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From the back.

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Lenovo says it has tested the rolling function 30,000 times and it has performed without flaws, so you can rest a little easier about reliability, though repairing this machine sounds like it will be a task. The whole laptop doesn’t feel significantly different from a normal machine, weighing just 3.7 pounds—that’s one pound less than the 16-inch MacBook Pro. However, walking with your laptop open in your hand might be weird as it feels a little top heavy. When closed, it’s 19.9 mm thin—the 16-inch MacBook Pro is 15.4 mm, so Lenovo’s machine is thicker, but not as thick as a gaming laptop.

Lenovo often shows off quirky concepts at trade shows—last year we got a glimpse of a transparent laptop at Mobile World Congress. But, announced at CES 2025, this rollable PC is no concept. This is a real laptop the company will begin shipping in the first quarter of 2025 with a staggering $3,499 price tag. Powered by Intel’s Core Ultra 7 Series 2 processor, this is a Copilot+ PC, with up to 32 GB of RAM and up to 1 terabyte of storage.

The First Third-Party SteamOS HandheldHandheld gaming consoles that aren’t the Nintendo Switch have been getting popular over the last two years, kicked off largely in part to the debut of Valve’s Steam Deck. That console employs SteamOS as the operating system, but subsequent competitors use Windows as the OS, which can lead to a janky experience. Windows just wasn’t designed to be used on a handheld gaming console, though things could change as Microsoft is rumored to be working on an Xbox handheld.

Lenovo’s Legion handhelds, in two flavors.

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But if you can’t beat ‘em, join ’em. That’s what Lenovo did with the Legion Go S. This isn’t a successor to the Legion Go—the company unveiled a prototype Legion Go 2 with some small refinements—but it’s an alternate version that comes in two flavors: Windows or SteamOS. That makes it the first licensed handheld gaming console running SteamOS. Unfortunately, there’s no dual-booting option, you have to choose which operating system you want at checkout, though you are able to run third-party game stores on SteamOS, like the Epic Games Store.

With SteamOS, you can take advantage of cloud saves, so you can stop playing at your desktop PC or laptop and move to the Legion Go S without losing progress. You can also stream games from your PC to the console if they’re more graphically demanding (as long as your internet connection is good).

Outside of software, the Legion Go S variants have the same hardware. They’re powered by AMD’s Ryzen Z2 Go or Ryzen Z1 Extreme, sport an 8-inch 1,920 X 1,200-pixel resolution LCD display with a 120-Hz variable refresh rate. The smaller and lower-res screen over the original Legion Go affords better battery life, though it also helps that the battery is beefier at 55.5 watt hours. It does not feature removable controllers, though you can use the two USB-C ports to hook it up to a monitor for a desktop-like experience, and there’s a microSD card slot to expand storage.

The Windows-powered Legion Go S starts at $730 and arrives this month, though there will be other configurations with newer chipsets coming later in May, with prices starting at $600. The SteamOS version starts at $500 and launches in May.

Monitor Speakers With Private AudioLenovo has dozens of new CES products, but one last gizmo that stood out to me is the ThinkCentre M90a Pro Gen 6 all-in-one computer. It doesn’t sound all that exciting (all in ones rarely are), but Lenovo has new technology called “Lenovo Focus Sound” injected into this machine. This is almost like a film applied over the display that delivers audio specifically to you—using machine learning algorithm and the built-in camera, it makes sure only you can hear audio from the monitor so nearby coworkers can’t hear that you’re secretly catching up on Love Island.

It sounds bizarre—almost like someone is whispering in your ear—but it works! I stood directly in front of the computer and listened to a demo reel, and the people next to me couldn’t hear a thing. I moved a little to the right, and the sound disappeared. It seems helpful for office environments, but then again, headphones already exist. Still, the technology is very cool, even if it sounds a little unsettling. The M90a Pro Gen 6 goes on sale this quarter and starts at $2,539.