Update: The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable has won best of gaming in CNet’s Best of CES Awards.
For the last few years, rollable displays have been the star of CES, but they’re usually found in extremely expensive – and quickly discontinued – TVs. At CES 2026, though, Lenovo is showing off a gaming laptop that uses a rollable OLED display that can stretch to an ultrawide aspect ratio.
While it’s still just a concept, the Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable is pitched to include a ‘top-spec’ Intel Core Ultra processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090. That super-powerful graphics chip is necessary, too, given the extra pixels it needs to push once the display is stretched out in all of its 24:9 glory.
Keep in mind, though, that because this is still a just a concept, you shouldn’t expect it to hit store shelves any time soon. As such, the specs are likely to change if and when this rollable laptop ever makes it to market. Lenovo unsurprisingly hasn’t revealed any kind of pricing for the Legion Pro Rollable Concept, either. But if it does come out, expect it to cost a few thousand bucks.
Stretchy Laptop
Lenovo showed me the concept back in December in New York, and it’s clearly in early stages. For instance, the Lenovo rep had to mess with the command line to even get the display to roll itself out. In the short few weeks between when I initially saw it and CES itself, Lenovo has fixed this. The display now extends out with a simple key combination: just press down the Fn button and the right or left arrow keys to extend or shrink the display, respectively. Even for a concept, the motion was extraordinarily smooth, and will likely get even better if this laptop ever actually sees the light of day.
But because of the mechanism needed to have a rollable display like this, the laptop is quite heavy. Again, it’s a concept, so Lenovo isn’t sharing any hard specs, but this laptop has to weigh close to 8 or 10 pounds. Thats something else that’ll likely be improved if this laptop comes out – a repeating theme.
The laptop by default has a resolution of 2048 x 1280 at a 16:10 aspect ratio. That’s a weird resolution, for sure, but it’s not exactly impressive by modern gaming laptop standards. However, that default screen configuration isn’t really the point. The laptop’s display can roll out to two different sizes, resulting in either a 21:9 display with a resolution of 2986 x 1280 or a 3413 x 1280 24:9 display.
No matter what, that means that the Legion Pro Rollable is a FHD laptop, but that just means that the RTX 5090 this thing is packing – for now – won’t have any problem driving high framerates, even in super-demanding games. After all, Lenovo is calling these stretched out display modes “Tactical Mode” and “Arena Mode” for the 21:9 and 24:9 modes, respectively, so it seems it wants this to appeal to esports gamers.
If this actually comes out, I wouldn’t recommend it to any esports gamers, though. Instead, the ultrawide display appeals much more to gamers that like more immersive and story-based games. There is just something about jumping into an open world and having it take up your entire field of view. That’s why ultrawide displays are my favorite gaming monitors, and now we can potentially get that on a gaming laptop.
Unfortunately, the laptop didn’t have any actual games installed on it either time I tried it, so I don’t know how it handles actually playing games. I did try digging around the PC when no one was looking to find something installed, but instead all I got to do was extend and retract the display over and over again. That was fun, but I would have loved to see how the computer was able to handle the extra pixels introduced by extending the screen.
Unfortunately, I’ll have to wait until Lenovo decides this is worth releasing into the wild to actually benchmark it. Until then, I’ll just dream of booting up the Witcher 3 with the display extended all the way out to its 24:9 mode.
Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor at IGN and the PC components queen. You can follow her @Jackiecobra
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