Flipping One Screen into Three: What ThinkBooks Need to Turn One Laptop Into Three? The Case of the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Lenovo showed off several new laptop concepts. An attachment that allows you to turn one laptop screen into three for maximum productivity is one of the highlights. Here’s what they’re like.

Only here does the ThinkBook flip fold behind the main portion of the screen instead of extending out from underneath it, like the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 that is expected to arrive in June. That means there are no motors, which could bring costs down, and none of the display is left sitting unused inside the chassis — hence the Flip’s 0.4 inches of extra screen real estate over the Gen 6.

This is essentially a 13-inch laptop, but the rest of the flexible touchscreen OLED display folds over the top of the lid. That means when the machine is closed, you still get a small screen to view, turning it into a tablet. You can use it with a 13-inch screen if you open the laptop. You can even mirror the screen that’s facing you to the one that’s facing away, which allows the person in front of you to see what you’re doing.

You manually flip this screen up to turn it into an 18.1-inch behemoth with a 4:6 aspect ratio. There are two ways to make use of the screen: fill the entire screen with an app or split it into two apps. As someone who uses multiple screens every day to be productive, the taller screen will certainly be helpful to have two full-size browser windows on top of each other. The only slight flaw that I noticed was that the top part of the screen leans forward a bit, though Lenovo assured me that this was just an early concept model and that other versions are just as sturdy.