ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 – Lenovo’s rollable laptop (theverge.com)

The sort of people I know who would buy that are the sort of people who will break it within the first week of owning it. It is the same with folding phone owners I know.

I openly admit that I probably lack the vision others have about these devices with flexible screens, so I find this type of display functionality useless and prone to failure. I'm not the target audience, I guess.

I cannot possibly imagine what I'd do with a "rollable" laptop, but I do see one tiny benefit to foldable phones; reduced pocket consumption. Having a smaller device or a device that gets smaller is just two different ways to solve my main beef with modern phablets.

Personally, I wish someone would just make a clamshell smart phone where I open it up to a single screen on one half and a physical keyboard on another, but that's a different discussion.

That all said, I'm curious to hear from the people who want this device. What's drawing you to it? What problem does this type of display on a laptop solve for you? What are your concerns about its robustness or longevity, if any?

I don't think i have a problem that can be fixed by this solution. When on the go, i want my laptop to be small and portable, when seated at a desk i want my display to be as big as possible, e.g, 32inch 4k, or 2 x 27inch.

I think most people lack horizontal space more than vertical. Too much vertical space makes your neck tired.

I rather wish that they had rolled with their transparent screen concept:

https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/lenovos-tran...

it would have been _amazing_ for usage as a manual/teaching aid in a shop setting.

Nah, I'll be waiting for a ScrollBook with touchscreen pen support and Windows 13 Proscription edition

Serious question. Am I completely old-fashioned for not expecting the word ass to appear in a professional article? Am I, a mature professional, not the target audience for this laptop or for this article? Who else would such a laptop be targeted at?

The screenshots on the Lenovo site all show the single 16.7" screen being used as two screens, one above the other.

If you're not going to use it as a single screen, it's not that much better than carrying around a USB-C portable monitor, unless you switch locations several times each day.

not surprised, lenovo has tons of models like L13, X13, N13, how on earth as a regular human am I supposed to make sense of it? Now I have a rollable screen, what does it even mean..

there are so many things I don't understand, same with foldable phones. I am also super happy companies like framework exist, give me a few choices, I don't need much, I want to forget times of tetrising my PC when I was a kid.

Finally, someone is trying to tackle the huge taskbar problem in Windows 11!

I like this idea, I wouldn't buy one but I always want more vertical space on a laptop screen.

Some of the benefits the author lists make a lot of sense. The elevated sightline helps with posture, and improves the webcam angle. I use my laptop as a secondary display when working from home, and the idea of getting more real estate from the same 14-inch footprint is appealing.

I think it's telling that they aren't rolling this out in a ThinkPad-branded device. The bendy screen tech isn't really there yet. The screen surface is still wiggly, and reliability still isn't what it should be.

lenovo do need to work on their speaker game - on thinkpads speakers are weak. I'm not sure of parts cost but given thinkpad's target segment even an extra $50 won't hurt for macbook level quality speakers

Cool but I just want mouse buttons. Why did we stop doing mouse buttons? Clickpads are horrible and I'm worried that we are forgetting what we've lost.

A laptop with a regular screen that can raise up would be interesting, since that'd put it in a more comfortable viewing position.

A Lenovo without a trackpoint us less useful than tits on a bull.

I wonder how Linux deals with this? Is extending the screen a display resize? Or a cropped area extension? Or a different display? Even more questions about using it as two monitors...

Lenovo should've let Hefei LCFC build their Gemini concept instead. :(

Is there a word that is a portmanteau of "hate" and "love" because I hate this idea and love this idea in equal measure.

Maybe if it unrolled horizontally instead I would hate it less.

I can't believe there's more of a market for this thing than there is for laptops with actual mouse buttons below the touchpad.

I wish they would go all-in. Imagine a laptop/tablet/phone that rolls all the way into a cylinder, like a scroll. Sure, it would be fragile during use, but it would be much stronger while stowed, and you might even be able to avoid the crease problem.

I am happy to see a laptop with a portrait orientation, though. The only thing landscape is good for is watching video. Everything else is better in portrait.

I'd love to try it but at £3,680 I probably won't.

Yeah, opened the link, scrolled to the photos, was distracted, cannot view them again (in about an hour), due to the paywall. Cool.