2025 has already seen a host of PC display innovations, including a folding monitor from Samsung, an Asus monitor that integrates Google TV, and 500Hz OLED gaming monitors from a number of companies. And when it came to laptop displays, both ASUS and Lenovo announced second-generation dual-screen laptops in their Zenbook Duo and Yoga Book 9i lines. However, Lenovo, which released the first laptop with a foldable screen in 2020, the ThinkPad X1 Fold, again claimed bragging rights with a new laptop that has a rollable screen, one which extends up from the base of the laptop with the press of a button or a gesture.
The resulting screen area grows from 14” in its native state to 16.7” in its extended state, adding about another third to its display area and shifting from a landscape orientation to a portrait one. The portrait orientation is ideal for working with websites, PDFs, and even watching Instagram reels. The extended display’s aspect ratio is 16x18 (or two stacked 16x9 monitors), the same aspect ratio as LG’s larger DoubleUp PC monitor, which I've praised for its productivity-boosting properties previously.
