Lenovo’s latest rollable concept, announced astatine IFA 2026, is the ThinkBook Project Swan: a business laptop pinch a surface that expands horizontally from 14 to 17 inches.
Rollable screens are thing caller for Lenovo. The institution has shown disconnected respective concepts and moreover launched a existent 1 past twelvemonth (and it was beautiful great). But Project Swan seems a small much restrained than that chaotic vertically expanding ThinkBook Plus Gen 6.
Rolling from 14 to 17 inches.
The Swan starts retired arsenic a beautiful accepted 14-inch laptop, albeit pinch a heavy lid, until its elastic OLED unrolls to a 17-inch 16:9 screen. It’s a overmuch much accepted — and much portable — return connected a horizontal rollable than the gaming laptop conception Lenovo showed astatine CES, which went from an already ample 16-inch to a monolithic 24-inch ultrawide. The Swan is 0.7 inches / 17.9mm thick, and weighs 3.5 pounds / 1.6kg — a small heavier and thicker than your mean 14-inch, but mini and ray for 17 inches.
When I saw the ThinkBook Swan astatine my early in-person preview, it looked for illustration much of a vanished merchandise than a rickety prototype. Like each rollables, you tin easy spot the ripple successful the surface wherever it rolls, but you don’t really announcement it successful use. My only interest pinch this shape facet is that the lid is rather dense because it has to accommodate each the other surface and motor, alternatively than storing it successful the assemblage of the laptop for illustration the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6. This limits really acold backmost you tin tilt the screen, and you person to dream the hinge (which is amazingly small) will beryllium beardown capable to support firmness aft years of use.
1/11Stretch your wings out, Swan.
Like its counterpart Project AeroBlade Concept that Lenovo is besides announcing astatine IFA, the ThinkBook Project Swan is outfitted pinch an Intel Lunar Lake chip. If it comes to market, we tin expect newer Intel silicon. And I deliberation we should expect this one, aliases thing very overmuch for illustration it, to make it to customers.
Last year’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 costs h $3,500 earlier RAMageddon value hikes were moreover a thing. Since then, it seems further rollable and foldable concepts from Lenovo person been trying to thread the needle connected balancing shape factor, durability, and price. This is nary uncertainty moreover much challenging now successful our RAMageddon world, but the Swan’s simpler attack looks for illustration it mightiness make the cut.
Photography by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge
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