Lenovo unveiled a rollable screen laptop during CES 2026 earlier this year.ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable, now officially launched in the global marketSale, and is sold at a starting price of $3499.
The ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable is normally used with a 14-inch OLED display, which can be extended to a 16.7-inch size with a single button operation, giving users an additional 50% display area. This design is very convenient for mobile office users who need a larger display screen.
Lenovo boasts that the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable features a retractable screen that expands the display size. Its hinge design is rated for approximately 3 opening and closing cycles, and over 20000 upward and downward rotations. The ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable weighs a mere 1.63 kg and is only 1.9 cm thick. While thicker than most current thin and light laptops, it's still comparable to mainstream laptop designs.
In terms of hardware, the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable is equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor, 32GB of memory and 1TB of SSD storage capacity. It also has Wi-Fi 7 and a 500-megapixel video camera, but there are only two Thunderbolt 4 connection ports, perhaps to save internal space.
As for the Intel Core Ultra 7 processor, this laptop also complies with Microsoft's "Copilot+ PC" design and supports many artificial intelligence computing experiences.
Intel further explained that this laptop was created in collaboration with the Lenovo team in a joint laboratory at the Lenovo Research and Development Center in Shanghai. The two teams had previously used writable e-paper screen designs on Lenovo's first and second generation ThinkBook Pluses, and added an auxiliary screen next to the keyboard on the third generation model. The fourth generation design allowed the screen to rotate along a hinge or fold completely into a tablet form, while the fifth generation adopted a detachable hybrid screen design, allowing the laptop to be converted between Windows and Android tablets.
In the sixth-generation design, engineers spent two years overcoming thermal and power management issues, placing two additional micro motors responsible for driving the screen's extension and scrolling within the 2mm thick body. They also used a small printed circuit board, rearranged the internal hardware layout, and adopted a high-density battery design to address space issues.
In addition to the body design, engineers also considered the usage issues when the screen is stretched, such as improving delays or over-stretching during the screen stretching process, as well as power consumption and heat dissipation issues when the screen is stretched to different situations. In addition, they also created dedicated drivers and application software for different screen display conditions to cope with different usage scenarios.
