In 2025, Lenovo stole the show at CES with a rollable ThinkBook. At CES 2026, it’s doing it again, but with a rollable Legion gaming laptop widescreen that expands the screen to either side, transforming into an ultrawide gaming notebook at a moment’s notice.
Right now, the Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable concept is a proof-of-concept prototype, but so have the rollable laptops that Lenovo has shown previously. Most if not all have come to market, though we won’t known when or for how much. Give credit where it’s due: Lenovo isn’t afraid to show off concepts of future devices, encouraging discussion and feedback before they even ship.
Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Rollable from last year was all about productivity: the $3,299 notebook’s screen extended upwards from 14 inches to create a 16.7-inch display, adding a bit of extra screen space for road warriors. The underlying argument is that more screen space is better than less, especially while working on the road and without an external monitor.
The Legion Pro Rollable goes the other way, literally. The screen extends twice: both from a 16-inch display to a 21.5 inch screen, on out to about 23.8 inches, all controlled (for now) via the function keys on the top row of the keyboard. It’s all based on Lenovo’s masterful Legion 7i, which earned nearly five stars in PCWorld’s review.
Are ultrawides worth it for gaming? In certain situations, absolutely. Games which don’t focus on competition, such as Microsoft Flight Simulator, simply use that extra space to show more of the world. Games like Civilization may show more of the map. Even if a game is locked to a 16:9 ratio, that extra space can be used for something like the Xbox app or Discord. And if the app does refuse to use that extra space — such as applying black bars around a cutscene, for example — the Legion Pro Rollable would always offer the option of “shrinking” the display back down to a more comfortable ratio.
Since Lenovo’s Rollable is a prototype, however, we don’t know too much else about it. Lenovo executives say if they build it, you should expect the “best of the best” with a top-of-the-line gaming processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090. (Lenovo does make laptops based upon AMD and Qualcomm Snapdragon processors, but everything we saw at CES 2026 from the company had an Intel processor inside.)
The one component that Lenovo appears to have settled upon, however, is the screen: a rollable OLED featuring a high contrast ratio. Right now, the resolution is “3.6K,” or a hair under a 4K display, running at 60 to 90 Hz. Again, those are prototype specifications: an OLED with between 165Hz to 240Hz is much more likely, executives said. (At those resolutions and refresh rates, why would you ever go back to an IPS display?)
I didn’t have too much time to go hands-on with the Legion Pro rollable, but it certainly felt like a finished device. About the only drawback I noticed was the motors: the gearing which rolled and unrolled the laptop’s display was on the loud side. Just remember that it’s still classified as a prototype…even if we can expect it to arrive as a product before long.
Author: Mark Hachman
Source: PCWorld
Reviewed By: Editorial Team
