Lenovo did not even release his The field but this did not prevent the company from taking the main components of the laptop and turn it into a completely new thing on the MWC 2025.
Officially is called ThinkBook Codename Flip AI PC PCCENT of Concept (yes, that is, its official name, and it is a real sip), the laptop uses the same flexible OLED, represented in his main brother, with the exception of this time, instead of disappearing inside its chassis, the display is folded out. This allows, as usual, the 13-inch panel will double in the amount of up to 18.1 inches at any time. It is noteworthy that from the fact that the Flip screen bends instead of sliding into the lower half of the system, Lenovo can use the full area of the panel, unlike the ThinkBook roll, which can stretch only up to 16.7 inches.
In its vertical mode, this provides a lot of additional space for documents or multitasking. Nevertheless, the screen can also be folded back into a tablet mode or something like a 2-in-1 tent mode during the time, when you can share your display with someone on the other side of the table.
A somewhat impressive, bizarre monitor is not the only trick that has Flip. Below, Lenovo created what he calls smart forking, which is equipped with a three -layer lighting monitor, which adds custom control elements and icons to its surface. This is a neat trick that expands what the main touch panel can do, although this is not a very huge jump from what we saw on competing machines from and others. Finally, inside, Flip should have solid performance due to the inclusion of the Intel Core Ultra 7, 32 GB of RAM and PCIe SSD.
As a fan of something with a flexible screen, it is interesting to see how quickly Lenovo was able to take the components used in the ThinkBook Plus and turn them into something else. Nevertheless, since it was a very early prototype (the representative of Lenovo said that it was only one of the two in the world at that time), there are some obvious problems that need to fight before this thing is approaching the official issue.
The first is that for the system with the screen so high, its hinge was not completely in order to maintain everything stable, since even a light crane would force the entire panel to swing back and forth. The models that I used also lacked the bruise that appears in some advertising images of Lenovo, which would increase its strong even more.
Nevertheless, the largest potential problem with FLIP can be difficult to solve, because it is inherent in its main design. When the laptop collapses into a trip for travel, the way its screen reveals a flexible display on the elements that can scratch it. And although this can be circumvented using a tight -fitting sleeve for a laptop, it seems too dangerous, even for me, who used folding phones within half a decade. Upon further consideration, I will not be surprised if this design task is an important reason why Lenovo decided to bring ThinkBook to the market, not a flip.
Currently, Lenovo does not plan to bring the coup to full production, but even in this case it is pleasant to see that the company can come up with when they are not afraid to demonstrate unfinished devices.
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