Lenovo is not shy to try out new things. Last year the PC manufacturer teased a concept laptop with a transparent screen. At the beginning of this year, the ThinkBook Flip concept used a flexible OLED display that was folded over the top of the laptop lid and is ready if they needed the additional screen space. On the CES 2025 we saw a thinkbook with A rollable OLED screen that was automatically expanded at the push of a button – this is a real product that you can actually buy.
Get ready for another shaky concept. At IFA 2025, the Tech exhibition in Berlin Lenovo presented its latest idea: the Lenovo ThinkBook Vertiflex. This is a laptop with a screen that can manually turn from a horizontal standard orientation to vertically.
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By default, the ThinkBook Vertiflex concept looks like a normal 14-inch laptop. However, take a close look at the edge of the screen and you will equip a second layer. This is the actual screen. Take the right corner edge of the screen and press it up and the display turns smoothly into a vertical orientation.
The rear panel on which the screen is mounted has a felt reserve to keep everything smoothly and scratch -free, and you can even present a telephone here in this direction. There is a mechanism inside that manages the movement and works smoothly. Nevertheless, the PC is still quite slim at 17.9 mm and weighs about 3 pounds. (The 14-inch MacBook Pro is about 15 mm thick and weighs 3.4 pounds.)
I use a dual screen setup with a vertical monitor next to my ultraWide monitor at home. A vertical screen is a player because it is perfect for applications that use more vertical space. E -mail is a good example. Apps like Slack, everything that has to do with PDFs and even most of the text processing software. But I haven't changed my screen alignment in the middle of a workflow.