Hands on at CES 2026: Lenovo debuts two new rollable concept laptops

Six months after sending the world’s first rollable laptop to market, Lenovo is back with two new concept PCs with extended screens. The tech giant unveiled the business-oriented ThinkPad Rollable XD Concept and the gaming-ready Legion Pro Rollable Concept at CES 2026 on Tuesday after extensive leaks. Mashable was one of the first to demo Lenovo’s new laptop at the company’s private showroom.

Like last year’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable AI, these two Windows laptops were born out of Lenovo’s desire to play with OLED panels, which are extremely thin and flexible. Both devices appear to be quite sophisticated, even though they’re just prototypes, so I imagine getting them ready for the market will involve some more durability and stability testing. (Lenovo mentioned they were fragile before letting us get our hands on them.)

Even if that never happens, I think we can already consider these rollables as a triumph for the company’s engineering team. They already act as intended and look sick when they do.

Lenovo’s ThinkPad Rollable XD has an expandable two-sided screen

The ThinkPad Rollable It looks a lot like the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 when you’re directly facing it, but it has an extra gimmick. Its OLED display rotates 180 degrees at the top edge of its lid to create a second ,“World-facing” display on the back.

Lenovo said it has developed a transparent glass cover in partnership with Corning to protect the part of the OLED panel that folds behind its main “user-facing” display. There’s an aesthetic bonus: You can see the fiber cables and motor that power its “rolling” mechanism. (It’s now housed in the lid of the device instead of its base.) This is such a flex from Lenovo.

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You can control the height of the ThinkPad Rollable XD’s display by pressing a button or moving a finger along the edge of its lid—every part of it has touchscreen capabilities. It doesn’t respond to voice commands or hand gestures like last year’s Rollable, but remember: It’s a concept for now. Both control options may eventually end up on a market-ready model.

Lenovo’s Legion Pro rollable is practically a perfect hidden monitor

Lenovo’s other new concept laptop at CES, the Legion Pro Rollable, features a 240Hz OLED display that extends on both sides. It can grow from 16 inches in “Focus Mode” (its standard “unrolled” size) to 21.5 inches in “Tactical Mode” and expand to a full two feet in “Arena Mode.” It’s basically creating an external monitor out of nowhere. For those who need more screen real estate, I think it will feel more intuitive than a dual-screen gaming laptop like the Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo.

When the Legion Pro Rollable opened, I noticed some skid marks on its screen (apparently from internal mechanisms), but they were superficial and easily wiped off. There was some subtle creasing where the OLED panel had retracted into its housing. As I said, any market-readiness polishing will likely include some build quality improvements. Lenovo says it currently has the capacity to last up to 25,000 roll cycles.

The Legion Pro Rollable will be configured like Lenovo’s Legion Pro 7i, a premium 16-inch laptop for competitive PC gamers. Think high-end Intel Core processors, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 GPU, and plenty of ports.

Aesthetically, it’s equipped with RGB accent lighting: it has an RGB keyboard, a glowing “Legion” logo on its lid, and dynamic rainbow LED strips on its thick rear fan vent. It’s almost Lisa Frankian in its grandeur – you can’t look away from it.

Heaviness and heat are two obvious downsides to what makes laptops so attractive. It was blowing hot air when we demoed it, and we didn’t even have any games.

Although none of the prototypes are guaranteed to make it to market, the arrival of the original Lenovo rollable laptop two years after its conceptual debut gives me hope that we’ll be able to buy them in a few years. Considering the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 retails for $3,499.99, I’d start saving now.