You Can Actually Buy Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Rollable Laptop

I don’t urge watering your laptop similar your plants. Good thing, then, that you don’t request a greenish thumb for Lenovo’s latest 14-inch laptop to ticker it grow. The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Rollable—one we’ve already seen successful leaks— turns a 14-inch OLED show into a 16.7-inch surface with a click of a button. It’s not a specified conception product. It’s real, and you tin bargain it for a whopping $3,500.

Lenovo claims the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable offers 50% much surface erstwhile you property a cardinal oregon usage different manus gesture. If you privation to scroll done a longer Excel record oregon consciousness similar a hacker antheral arsenic your surface unrolls earlier your eyes, the ThinkBook Rollable mightiness acceptable the bill. The instrumentality features vertical splitscreen for aggregate windows, though I personally would astir apt similar a widescreen for dealing with aggregate documents.

The ThinkBook Rollable is powered with an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor, though Lenovo didn’t specify which SKUs volition beryllium available. Otherwise, it’s a comparatively modular tiny laptop with 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports, up to 32 GB of RAM, and a 66 Whr battery.

There’s respective laptops that committedness to heighten surface space, similar the Asus Zenbook Duo and Lenovo’s ain Yoga Book 9i. There’s besides a increasing fig of foldable laptops with flexible screens that usually endure from lackluster show and over-sized designs. The ThinkBook Rollable whitethorn person much moving parts that pb to failure, though it besides seems much successful enactment with emblematic laptop plan that doesn’t necessitate the processing powerfulness and artillery to facilitate 2 screens astatine once.

With the added screen, the laptop inactive weighs astir 3.7 pounds. That’s not heavy, but not what astir would see archetypal for a airy laptop. It’s 19.9 mm, oregon .8 inches heavy erstwhile closed up. There’s lone one, grey colour option, truthful arsenic overmuch arsenic it looks similar an anomaly it’s a precise business-focused device. For that price, you could look for 2 coagulated laptops with akin specs and inactive person wealth near over. Is having a 16.7-inch vertically-minded show worthy it? If each you privation is to ticker codification standard down your PC surface similar successful The Matrix, past perhaps. It whitethorn besides springiness you an borderline playing aged schoolhouse arcade games similar Asteroids.

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

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