Lenovo is at it again with wild laptop concepts for CES 2026, and the biggest one is the Legion Pro Rollable gaming laptop. It has a flexible OLED display that expands horizontally — as opposed to Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, which rolls up and down. The Legion Pro Rollable’s screen goes from a conventional 16-inch 16:10 aspect ratio to an extra-wide 21.5 inches, all the way to an ultrawide 24 inches. That’s even bigger (diagonally, at least) than the ridiculous $9,000 21-inch gaming laptop Acer once made.
The Pro Rollable concept is based on the Legion Pro 7i, and it’ll come with an Intel Core Ultra processor and Nvidia’s flagship RTX 5090 Laptop GPU. There are no specifics yet on RAM or storage options.
Lenovo envisions this concept appealing to esports professionals who need to train on the go, which is why it’s branded the laptop’s 16-inch, 21.5-inch, and 24-inch settings as “Focus Mode,” “Tactical Mode,” and “Arena Mode.” (Because everything needs branding.) But it seems like a cool laptop idea for just about anyone who covets maximum screen real estate without lugging around a portable monitor.
Frankly, as much as I loved the vertical rolling screen of last year’s ThinkBook, this is the direction I’ve been wanting. And based on reader comments, I think a sizable number of you agree with me. Fortunately, Lenovo has a pretty good track record of bringing concept laptops to market. It already released one rollable, and this year the ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist is also moving beyond the concept stage. So I went into my CES demo with high hopes.
After seeing it in action, however, I can say that this is very much a capital-C Concept. The motors were noisy, and the screen sometimes stuttered as it rolled and unrolled. The display resolution was stuck in its 24-inch ultrawide setting, regardless of the actual screen position, so in the 16-inch and 21.5-inch modes, it only showed the center of a larger area. The lid had a massive gap on its sides where the extra screen segments are stored, big enough to see the underside of the RGB logo on the lid. There weren’t even any games installed to test. But while all this tempered my enthusiasm a bit, it’s still a very cool concept. Just one that needs a lot more time in the oven.
As much as I want this laptop to come out — and I’m dying to review it if it does — it’s already got me yearning for a rollable desktop monitor. Imagine a 27-inch 16:10 OLED that expanded to a 34-inch ultrawide. Or one that started at 32 inches and went really big — like Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 or Dell 52-inch 6K big.
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