Lenovo unveiled its “rollable” laptop at CES two years ago as a wild proof of concept that turned heads, but left consumers skeptical. Well, the company has since proved its point: the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable 
The result is a large, portrait-style display that goes far beyond any other standard laptop screen size on the market. The glossy, OLED screen delivers a fantastic picture, with no flickering or dimming around the edges, although there is some visible creasing that looks like what you’d see on a foldable phone’s display.
This is especially true if you rotate the glossy display to reflect the light. It’s a little more visible than I expected and certainly something of note (given the price), but ultimately, it doesn’t really overshadow the benefit of the large screen.
For example, you stop noticing the creasing when your attention is focused on what you’re actually doing. It’s one of those things that’s an inevitable part of its mechanics — it took foldable phones several years to reduce the creasing on their displays — and although it doesn’t exactly scream “premium”, it doesn’t cancel out the benefits the screen provides.
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So what are the said benefits? First off, the extra room is a breath of fresh air. It allows for a spacious workspace that I have to admit, makes for a very nice user experience. Personally, I like running one large, full-screen desktop, but you can also put two windows, one on top of the other, for two 16:9 desktops.
To maximize real estate, I set the scale in Windows to 125%, bringing the UI down to a more manageable size that results in a crisp and efficient interface. However, if you want a larger UI, it still feels more roomy than a regular laptop display.
If you’re a programmer, you’ll appreciate the extended portrait orientation, but anyone who works with documents will love being able to see a third more content on the screen at a glance.
When fully extended, the bottom third of the screen is occupied by the Lenovo widget panel, which shows reminders, your to-do list, and a calendar at a glance. You can pin this to stay permanently on or have it hide behind your other apps.
There’s actually a lot of content here, including short videos that show how to use gesture controls to raise and lower the display and some suggestions on how to organize the screen more effectively.
Beyond the display, the rest of the laptop’s core components are quite nice. The keyboard is a little shallow, but the keys feel great, with a satisfying click that’s crisp and responsive.
I was also thrilled to find the haptic trackpad to be just as well-engineered, with a uniform click no matter where you press down on the pad, and a sensitive input for swipe gestures. One thing to note, however, is that in cooler temperatures, you might have some trouble with the pad recognizing your fingers, especially if they’re cold.
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Also note that the laptop’s form factor limits its I/O access, with just two USB-C Thunderbolt 4 ports and a headphone jack. All three ports are located on the left side of the device, which might be problematic for some users, but is an expected trade-off for the features.
All in all, the laptop’s core physical build feels premium (if a little chunky), and even without the rollable display, it would be a solid office laptop. The fingerprint reader on the power key, along with support for Wi-Fi 7 seal the deal as a modern business device.
Under the hood, the Intel Core Ultra 7 “Lunar Lake” processor, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage make for a standard hardware loadout comparable to any number of mid-to-upper range business laptops. The big display is powered by an integrated Intel Arc 140V GPU with 16GB of internal memory, supplying more than enough power for daily use.
Cinebench 24 MC | Geekbench 6.2.2 SC | Geekbench 6.2.2 MC | |
ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable | 563 | 2,732 | 10,701 |
Dell 14 Premium | 732 | 2,626 | 15,462 |
Acer Swift 16 AI | 518 | 2,743 | 10,932 |
If you’re looking to game on this laptop, it can handle some mainstream titles, but it’s not exactly built for running top-tier gaming content. In “normal” laptop mode, you’ve got a 2000 x 1600 resolution, standard fare for a 14-inch. But if your game supports a 2000 x 2350 resolution, you can play with the screen fully extended, which definitely feels like a unique experience, but because of all the screen space, it isn’t exactly optimized for high-APM gaming.
If you’re playing an older game that doesn’t support that resolution, well, the game will simply revert to the traditional resolution, resulting in empty space below the window and negating the whole point of the extended display. The bottom line here: gaming can be a bonus for this laptop, but not what it’s made for.
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Regarding battery life, the display expectedly cuts into the 66Whr battery’s longevity, although not as much as you might expect. During normal use, you can get a full work day of use out of it with the screen extended, but it’s cutting it close. If you add in videoconferencing and more demanding workloads, you might not make it through the day without a power top-up.
It’s niche, and it’s expensive, but it does what it’s supposed to: deliver a fantastic user experience in the office, with an expansive, flexible display that looks great, pairs nicely with a premium haptic touchpad, and just the right amount of power under the hood.
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At $3,200, this isn’t a mainstream laptop, and I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re absolutely sold on the extendable display and are committed to the form factor in the long term.
The reality is that you can get almost anything for less: a MacBook Pro M4 with the same processor and an upgraded Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 GPU for $1,000 less. But if you’re in love with the big screen, I can say that it’s a productivity game-changer in the office.
