It goes on sale June 19 starting at $3,499. Yeah, that is a steep price – but you are also getting something that has never been done before.
When it is in compact mode, you get a slick 14-inch OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate, 400 nits of brightness, full DCI-P3 color coverage and a 16:10 aspect ratio.
But once you roll it out, that same screen stretches to 16.7 inches and shifts to a portrait-style view, giving you more vertical real estate to play with. Whether you want one massive workspace or two stacked windows, it is designed to adapt to your workflow.
Not just a cool trick – this was a real engineering challenge
The ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 is a result of Intel-Lenovo engineering.
The rollable screen itself uses a plastic-like OLED material, similar to what you’d find on foldable smartphones. Lenovo says it was tested to survive 30,000 lid open/closes and 20,000 screen rolls, so it is not just a fragile concept piece.
And there were plenty of behind-the-scenes tech hurdles to figure out:
- How do you power down the hidden screen section when it’s rolled in?
- How do you keep things cool when that extra screen gets hot while tucked inside?
- And how do you make the screen transition seamless, with no lag, weird stretching, or stutter?
The answer?
We engineered all the thermal technology and power control to happen inside the Intel Core Ultra system-on-chip dynamic thermal tuning tool, or DTT. We worked with Lenovo to apply these technologies to control the thermal and manage the power. Then, in an industry first, we customized the Intel graphics driver software in a way to create the very smooth screen transition.
– Zheng Jiong, Intel’s senior director of Customer Engineering, June 2025
And there are real use cases here. Spreadsheets go from showing 39 lines of data to 66 when unrolled. Coders get more vertical space for lines of code. And if you are multitasking on the go, two 16:9 windows stacked in portrait mode is way more efficient than flipping between tabs. Even apps like Instagram and TikTok just look better in a taller view.
Connectivity-wise, you get two Thunderbolt 4 ports, Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4. The battery is 66Whr, which should offer a decent run time, though don’t expect an all-day battery with the screen fully rolled out.
With specs like this, the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable isn’t just about the cool screen – it’s built for serious users. The Core Ultra series, especially the Ultra 7, should handle multitasking like a champ. Whether you’re browsing, juggling multiple tabs, or working in Office apps, the experience should be fast and smooth.
Source: Phone Arena
