With retractable screens and lenses hidden under the screen, Lenovo launches a variety of avant-garde design laptops

Lenovo, a major notebook manufacturer, launched two notebook products with quite advanced specifications and designs at CES 2025. They are the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, which uses a scroll-shaped screen, and the lens is completely hidden under the screen, making it almost completely invisible in daily life. The unmistakable Yoga Slim 9i (Gen 10).

ThinkBook Plus Gen 6

ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 is the world’s first product to use a scroll-type screen. It uses a motor lift motor to “grow” the screen from 14 inches to 16.7 inches, which is approximately 50% more display area. However, the screen It can only change between two sizes and cannot be paused in the middle at will.

The way the screen is raised and lowered is also quite special. In addition to the dedicated raising and lowering buttons on the keyboard, you can also move your hand close to the front lens to operate it in a somatosensory way.

The thickness of the notebook itself is 1.9 cm and the weight is 1.63 Kg. For a product with a 16.7-inch screen and the ability to roll up and down, it is not too heavy.

In terms of specifications, the Intel Core Ultra 200 series processor is used internally, with up to 32 GB of memory and 1 TB SSD. It is a common configuration for business laptops, but the connection ports are a bit too streamlined, with only 2 sets of Thunderbolt 4 Type-C.

Yoga Slim 9i（Gen 10）

Yoga Slim 9i (Gen 10) is the world’s first laptop product to adopt an “under-screen lens”. As the name suggests, the video lens is hidden under the screen through a special panel, so that the screen does not need to be retained in the design. The space is used to place the lens, so that the laptop screen border is only 1.7mm, and the nearly full screen is visually very pleasing to the eye.

The hiding effect of the lens is different from the obvious flaw in the hiding method on the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold mobile phone. The panel used by Yoga Slim 9i (Gen 10) is almost invisible from daily vision. It is only visible when the video lens is activated. When the time comes, the corresponding block will change to pure black, temporarily forming a small round hole.

However, like all current hidden lens solutions, the camera quality of Yoga Slim 9i is very poor. According to foreign technology channels
The engineering machine Dave2D obtained, even in a well-lit studio, the effect of this 32-megapixel camera is like taking a picture with a feature phone in 2000 AD. It can only be called a picture, and the details and colors are unbearable. The degree of direct gaze.

In terms of detailed specifications, the OLED screen resolution of the laptop screen reaches a very fine 3840 x 2400, supports a 120 Hz refresh rate, can cover 100% DCI-P3, 99% Adobe RGB, and the processor is the Intel Core Ultra 200V series, with 32 GB memory, weight is 1.25 kg.

Regarding the release date and price of the two products, Yoga Slim 9i (Gen 10) has been put on the shelves in Hong Kong online stores, with an asking price of HK$16,412, equivalent to approximately NT$70,000; ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 is US$3499, equivalent to NT$70,000. It is priced at 115,000 yuan and is expected to be launched in June. Considering that the scroll panel and body structure are extremely special, it is expected that the price will not be affordable.