Lenovo’s new idea gaming laptop computer goes broad. Actually broad.

Lenovo is at it once more with wild laptop computer ideas for CES 2026, and the most important one is the Legion Pro Rollable gaming laptop computer. It has a versatile OLED show that expands horizontally — versus Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, which rolls up and down. The Legion Pro Rollable’s display screen goes from a traditional 16-inch 16:10 facet ratio to an extra-wide 21.5 inches, all the way in which to an ultrawide 24 inches. That’s even larger (diagonally, not less than) than the ridiculous $9,000 21-inch gaming laptop computer Acer as soon as made.

The Pro Rollable idea is predicated on the Legion Pro 7i, and it’ll include an Intel Core Ultra processor and Nvidia’s flagship RTX 5090 Laptop GPU. There are not any specifics but on RAM or storage choices.

Lenovo envisions this idea interesting to esports professionals who want to coach on the go, which is why it’s branded the laptop computer’s 16-inch, 21.5-inch, and 24-inch settings as “Focus Mode,” “Tactical Mode,” and “Arena Mode.” (Because all the pieces wants branding.) But it looks as if a cool laptop computer thought for nearly anybody who covets most display screen actual property with out lugging round a transportable monitor.

Frankly, as a lot as I beloved the vertical rolling display screen of final yr’s ThinkBook, that is the route I’ve been wanting. And based mostly on reader feedback, I feel a large variety of you agree with me. Fortunately, Lenovo has a fairly good observe report of bringing idea laptops to market. It already launched one rollable, and this yr the ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist can also be transferring past the idea stage. So I went into my CES demo with excessive hopes.

After seeing it in motion, nevertheless, I can say that that is very a lot a capital-C Concept. The motors have been noisy, and the display screen generally stuttered because it rolled and unrolled. The show decision was caught in its 24-inch ultrawide setting, whatever the precise display screen place, so within the 16-inch and 21.5-inch modes, it solely confirmed the middle of a bigger space. The lid had an enormous hole on its sides the place the additional display screen segments are saved, sufficiently big to see the underside of the RGB emblem on the lid. There weren’t even any video games put in to check. But whereas all this tempered my enthusiasm a bit, it’s nonetheless a really cool idea. Just one which wants much more time within the oven.

As a lot as I would like this laptop computer to come back out — and I’m dying to assessment it if it does — it’s already acquired me craving for a rollable desktop monitor. Imagine a 27-inch 16:10 OLED that expanded to a 34-inch ultrawide. Or one which began at 32 inches and went actually huge — like Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 or Dell 52-inch 6K huge.

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