Lenovo continues to experiment with rollable-screen OLED laptops here at CES 2026, and its latest Legion Pro concept laptop is sure to pique the interest of on-the-go gamers. Its 16-inch display fits nicely in the Legion Pro 7i chassis it's built around. But open the laptop up, and its screen expands sideways, in both directions, to become either a 21.5-inch "Tactical Mode" screen, or an even more immersive ultra-wide 24-inch "Arena Mode" display. The current firmware has you hit Fn and the arrow left/right keys to expand or retract the screen. Hitting the keys twice skips the middle mode and completely extends or retracts the screen.
The ultra-wide form factor has been popular among desktop gamers for years, but has been extremely rare in gaming laptops due to size constraints. But Lenovo is trying to make that an issue of the past with the Legion Pro Rollable — or at least it will if the company takes this concept further and creates a retail version.
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Of course, you'll need some serious CPU and GPU power to push those extra pixels. But the Legion Pro 7i that this concept is built around tops out with a mobile RTX 5090 and Intel's Core Ultra CPUs. While I of course don't know how much a finished version of this rollable concept will cost, I am sure there are quite a few gamers who would love to be able to carry around a 16-inch laptop that can deliver a screen up to 24 inches diagonally.
Lenovo's press release positions the Legion Pro Rollable as a device for esports competitors who can "carry small but train big" as they travel to and from events. And sure, I can see that, but I'm pretty sure there's a larger market as well for more casual gamers and road warriors who would love a screen-morphing portable with a screen that can get very large when you need it, while rolling back to a 16-inch size so it can fit in your backpack.
In a hands-on with the concept device, the screen looked very much like a product in development. The bezels were chunky and some of the screen edges didn't line up right. It works, but I didn't get to try a game on it. The main thing Lenovo seems to need to do is to work on the tension mechanism to hold the screen taught. They have this in the ThinkPad rollable concept (see below) with two motors and steel cables, so they know how to do it. But in the Legion, the screen looks a little wavy.
The sample I tried also made a pretty loud creaking noise, though Lenovo representatives told me it was a quirk of the unit I tried. I saw others that didn't have the same issue.
The other thing that I couldn't really tell was how much weight this might add. Probably not a huge amount, but the base laptop they used here was already a powerful and heavy system.
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