Lenovo may be most famous for its ThinkPads, the favorite PCs of sysadmins and businesses, but the brand goes far beyond those “boring” PCs. He’s also famous for experimenting a lot, like he did with his Lenofo Fold X1, which is basically a folding tablet that we can turn into a laptop.
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Along with flexible displays, Lenovo is also a little obsessed with introducing a second display to its laptops, like it did with the last-gen ThinkBook Plus, which had an e-ink display on the lid. of the laptop.
A tablet inside the laptop
For this generation of ThinkBook Plus presented this week, Lenovo has changed its approach. Now the screen is at the bottom of the laptop, which is now split in two: on the left is the keyboard and on the right is the aforementioned second screen which is basically an 8 inch tablet.
With a resolution of 800 x 1,280 pixels, this second screen can perform the same functions as an external tablet, but without the need to use cables or find a place to transport it. It is compatible with a touch pen (which is stored inside the laptop), so we can use it to write annotations on documents and images, for corrections, or even to draw.
Lenovo itself refers to the world of hybrid work in which we live, in which we are surrounded by mobile phones, tablets and monitors; this second screen allows us to have many secondary functionalities integrated into the device itself.
An example of use that Lenovo puts is, for example, to take notes during a videoconference or online presentation. The integrated tablet has its own application icons, to quickly launch our most used programs, and allows us to move elements of applications such as chat in a meeting to it.
What’s interesting is that the laptop itself doesn’t sacrifice much portability, with a 17.3-inch screen typical of large laptops; the main screen, by the way, offers 3K resolution and a refresh rate of 120 Hz with Dolby Vision.
Lenovo is not the first to have had the idea of putting a second screen. Asus has perhaps been the biggest bet on this idea, although its models, like the ZenBook Pro Duo, use an elongated screen that takes up the full width of the laptop, leaving the keyboard at the bottom, and serves more help in applications or games.
The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus will be available with a price starting at $1,500 in the US, yet to be confirmed in Europe.
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