Lenovo has officially announced the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable at a virtual event on September 22, 2025, as a creative move in the future of flexible electronics, and this is a landmark in the development of laptops. It is an innovative gadget that has a screen that literally unfolds like a scroll, with a small 14-inch screen expanding into a wide 16.7-inch screen with the touch of a button.
The ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 also costs a high entry price of a premium of 3,299, but it is not another ultrabook, but a declaration of how AI and adaptive hardware can revolutionise the productivity of both practitioners, makers and mobile warriors. With technology concurrently abuzz with speculations of other manufacturers like Samsung and Huawei launching a foldable and a flex, Lenovo’s rollable launches at the centre stage and is set to fill the void between portability and power.
The news is announced during a boom in the demand for flexible types of computing solutions, which are driven by hybrid work arrangements and by the development of content creation on the fly. The timing of Lenovo could not be better, given that the industry forecasts that shipments of laptops globally will recover by 8 per cent as early as 2025.
The ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable is the latest attempt by the company to dominate the high-end business market, following the success of its Yoga and ThinkPad brands. Initial practical demonstrations that were presented at the unveiling suggested the smooth merging of shape and functionality of the device, which reminds one of the notions of science fiction that have long been pending the gadget lovers.
Rolling into The Future: The Mechanics of Expandable Displays
The central feature of the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 is its rollable OLED panel, which is named as such and is a technological marvel developed with the help of LG Display. This contrasts with the usual foldable screens, which form a crease when pressed. This particular one unfolds smoothly through motorised rollers, which are built into the chassis, increasing the screen height by 2.7 inches in less than three seconds.
The result? When small size is important, like for a compact laptop in a regular backpack, it pops up to a mini-workstation when it is time to work marathons. There is no longer a need to clutter up external monitors by imagining cutting a 4K video timeline to a full 16:10 aspect ratio or code reviewing and performing virtual meetings.
This is not a parlour trick that comes very easily. The rollable design uses a self-healing polymer coating to avoid wear caused by repeated extensions, which will last more than 100,000 cycles, which is enough for daily use over ten years. Resolution is fixed to 2880 x 1800 in both modes, and a 120Hz refresh rate promises to make the scrolling of spreadsheets or 3D model rendering as smooth as butter.
It reaches a maximum brightness of 500 nits, which allows taking coffee shops outdoors, and Dolby Vision, which works with HDR, has raised the media consumption to the level of the cinema. Lenovo asserts that the display is flexible to allow the intrusion of the bezel to be cut by 40 per cent over fixed screens, allowing the use of the extra space in immersive working programs.
It is not the first time that Lenovo took a step into the flexible tech world, as in 2023, their concept rollable was a star at CES, yet Gen 6 makes it available to people with modifications based on the feedback. Constructed out of recycled aluminum alloys, the chassis is under 1.4 kilograms a featherweight of its own weight.
The hinges and seals are made of dust and splash resistant IP52 and protect the internals when travelling. The rollable design also introduces the strategy of vertical expansion, with the tablet form being expected to be used in portrait formats, such as researching documents or filtering social media.
Power Under the Hood: AI-Smart Performance and Battery Smarts
This would not be a revolutionary form factor without the guts to fill it in, and the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 has those guts with the Lunar Lake processors. The entry-level model includes a Core Ultra 7 258 V, up to 32GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD.
Graphics is provided by integrated Arc 140 V, which is adequate to do light creative tasks and 1080p gaming at moderate settings. More powerful users can have an optional discrete NVIDIA RTX 405,0, which takes them into the professional realm of ability to tackle Adobe Suite renders or CAD simulations with ease.
It is full of AI, thanks to the AI Engine+ suite from Lenovo. The software will automatically scale CPU / GPU usage according to the usage patterns, i.e., throttling the CPU / GPU usage during battery-saving email triaging and then full throttle during video exports.
One is the rollable-aware optimisation: when expanded, the system favours vertical app layouts and allows the so-called Expansive Mode, which uses the additional pixels to enable multitasking AI-enhanced, including automatically resizing a window or any split-screen suggestion, thanks to on-device Copilot integration.
Privacy is also enhanced, as a 5MP IR webcam with physical shutter and Windows Hello face recognition and a dedicated neural processing unit (NPU) that enables background blur in video calls in real-time are included.
Sceptics may also cast a cast on battery life, as the OLED is power hungry, and as are the motors. Lenovo estimates a maximum of 14 hours under the compact mode of mixed productivity, with a low of 10 hours under full rollout.
The 75Wh cell has USB-C PD charging of 100W with a 50% charge in 30 minutes. Thermal management TMC is vapour chamber cooling, which maintains the surface temperatures to a lower temperature of 42 °C when loaded.
There are abundant ports: Thunderbolt 4s and HDMI 2.1 ports, a headphone jack, and a microSD port can be used by creators who are busy with peripherals. The audio is spectacular with four down-firing speakers optimised with Dolby Atmos, which provides room-filling sound that competes with the soundbars on their own.
Design and Ergonomics: Cosiness in a Bifurcated World
The design ethos of Lenovo is reflected in the modest beauty of the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6. The Storm Grey finish with slight texture does not leave a fingerprint on it, and the keyboard, which is lit by backlight with travel of 1.5mm, is praised due to its snappy feedback and spacious design.
A responsive glass trackpad supports multi-finger gestures to support new and unique roll commands, which replicate the expansion of the screen to zoom quickly. The chassis has a low level of flex due to carbon fibre reinforcements, which makes it stable even on rough surfaces such as aeroplane trays.
Ergonomics goes as far as to health-related modifications: ambient lighting detects brightness and temperature of colour in order to minimise eye stress, and posture sensors in the form of the NPU remind users to correct their position when spending extended time at the computer.
The features related to accessibility are numerous, including voice-to-text amplification or the ability to remap the buttons to use them with one hand. 90% of materials will be recycled or renewable, and the packaging is fully compostable, as part of a nod to sustainability, which aligns with Lenovo’s commitment to carbon neutrality by 2030.
To business users, MIL-STD-810H certification implies that it can resist drops, vibrations and high temperatures, which is suitable in the field sales or remote deployment. The expandability of the rollable screen is also brilliant in teamwork; one can just open up and present dashboards to the team during a huddle without having to sit beside a small display.
Market Impact: Threatening the Status Quo of Laptops
The ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable is arriving at a time when the market is ripe for disruption. The Dell and HP conventional clamshells control the enterprise sales but are inflexible to adapt to an AI-driven world where workflows change every hour.
Foldables such as the Galaxy Book5 by Samsung have managed to find a niche, but their hinge wear and high cost have not encouraged a large number to use them. Coming in at $3,299 base (with upgrades to $4,500), Lenovo is aiming at the prosumers who can afford to invest in future-proofing, understand, think architects, marketers and developers who need the screen real-estate but have no tote bags they can fill with monitors.
The competition is also significant: the iPhone OLED MacBook refresh is rumored in 2026 and might take away some of the shine due to its ability to connect with the rest of the ecosystem, whereas Asus Zenbook Duo is still exploring two screens.
Nonetheless, Lenovo, with its rollable technology and patented and scalable technology, is a pioneer. First shipments are estimated by analysts to be 50,000 units by Q4 2025, with more widespread availability at Q1 2026 through Lenovo.com, Best Buy, and enterprise distribution.
This would hasten the 15 per cent global share of Lenovo in emerging markets such as India and Brazil, where space on the desk is limited. Wider soundwaves go out to the display industry. The rollable technology may move to the TV and tablets so that a coffee-table size can be used to enjoy entertainment on the walls.
To consumers, it makes large screen computing more of a democratic affair, which may be a catalyst for low-end variants in future. There are still obstacles; the cost of manufacturing flexible panels is still 30 per cent higher than producing rigid panels, but the fact that smartphone flexibles have economies of scale should help.
What it Means to the Tech of Tomorrow: The Road Ahead
The ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable is not only a device, it is the future of computing, becoming elastic, but only a glimpse of that future as pre-orders begin today. Lenovo foams at the mouth over AR overlays on the extended display, indicating untapped possibilities of mixed-reality productivity.
Will it be used to replace your dual monitor system? Yes, to most, yes, means providing relief on desk chains in a post-pandemic environment. The theme of this launch is clear: 2025: technology that fits us, not the other way around. Innovation is leaning towards the human need, in the case of AI companions and the shape-shifting hardware.
The payoff of Lenovo’s rollable bet will be successful if it creates a trend of flexible devices, similar to the transformation of phones through the introduction of touch displays. It is a play of high quality, but gambling to rethink work one extension at a time. Keep an eye on this space/real space/actually space as the Gen 6 opens up possibilities that we have not yet browsed.
