At CES 2026, Lenovo is saying one more new idea laptop computer with a remodeling display screen: the ThinkPad Rollable XD Idea. It’s a ThinkPad, full with its iconic purple TrackPoint nub, nevertheless it includes a versatile OLED show that wraps round to the outer a part of its lid. Slide your finger alongside the folded spin of its touchscreen, and the laptop computer vertically expands from a 13.3-inch show to a taller 15.9-inch display screen — providing extra display screen actual property for productiveness work. It’s a bit like Lenovo’s already launched ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 rollable, however the display screen and motors are all within the lid versus tucking the show into the chassis.
By wrapping the display screen across the lid, you get a little bit of usable exterior-facing workspace. When closed, the ThinkPad XD can show touch-friendly widgets on its lid. And giving it a knock will lengthen the show barely, lengthening the lid to make opening it simpler. The glass overlaying the outward-facing touchscreen and curved backbone on the high of the lid is fabricated from Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2, and the seethrough portion of the lid showcases the mechanics of the rollable display screen.
It’s genuinely enjoyable to increase and contract the XD idea’s display screen, seeing the internal motors and pulleys at work and altering the form of the laptop computer. After seeing the XD at a quick in-person demo, I believe each rollable gadget ought to have at the least some seethrough parts.
Since Lenovo made the rollable ThinkBook that really hit the market, it’s been toying with different ideas that would deliver shapeshifting screens to a wider viewers. The ThinkBook Flip concept eliminated the expensive mechanics and motors of the rollable and as an alternative had you manually fold the show over itself. The ThinkBook VertiFlex Concept merely allowed you to show its show to realize a taller vertical orientation. Each of those ideas might theoretically price lower than the $3,300 rollable that’s on sale now.
The ThinkPad XD idea might take {that a} step additional, because the rolling meeting is totally contained throughout the lid. When presenting it, a Lenovo rep instructed me “In a great world, this may be a panel choice” you possibly can configure a run-of-the-mill ThinkPad with. We’ll need to see if that day ever comes, or if the XD even will get a standalone launch of its personal. Lenovo is mild on different particulars concerning the XD Idea (like chip particulars, specs, and so forth.), however the firm retains placing every kind of ideas out into the world, and an honest quantity of them are slowly seeing real releases.
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