Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus has an E Ink touchscreen built into the lid
Read, take notes, and sketch with your laptop closed
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
While most laptop manufacturers race to produce the perfect balance between power, price, and portability, there’s still plenty of room to explore more novel concepts in case any of them happen to stick.
Aimed squarely at the multitasking market,Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus announced atCES 2020incorporates an E Ink display in the lid of the laptop, allowing you to view essential notifications, read ebooks or PDFs, and take notes or sketch with a stylus while your laptop is closed.
If this at all sounds familiar, then it’s likely because you’ve seen theLenovo Yoga Book C930, which replaced the keyboard section with an E Ink display, similarly doubling as an e-reader or sketchpad when not used for typing.
The external E Ink display on the ThinkBook Plus is 10.8-inches and, as is the case with all such displays, monochromatic. Lenovo is including its Precision Pen with the ThinkBook Plus, and it appears that the stylus will be able to attach to the side of the laptop when not in use.
As for the laptop itself, it’s sporting a 13.3-inch FHD IPS display where you’d typically expect the screen to be, and while other specific specs are a little light on the ground, we do know it’ll be powered by 10th-genIntelCore CPUs and utilise SSDs for storage.
Some other business-centric and privacy-minded features include a fingerprint scanner, webcam shutter, Skype hotkeys,AmazonAlexa integration and the ability to sync E Ink note-taking withMicrosoftOneNote.
The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus will be available in the US in March starting at $1,199 (about £910 / AU$1,729) with other regions’ pricing and availability yet to be announced.
Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter
Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed!
AMD just outsold Intel in the data center space for the first time ever
The UK government wants to help businesses make trustworthy AI products
Apple iMac 24-inch M4 (2024) review: the best, and most colorful, all-in-one computer levels up
