There are only so many ways to make a laptop, right? Screen on one half, keyboard on the other, hinge in the middle. That’s the way it’s been going for decades, save for the occasional experiment.
But Lenovo likes to mix things up, and at Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, it’s doing just that with super-tall screens, double screens, triple screens… They’re all on display, but most won’t make it to market.
The ThinkBook “Codename Flip” highlights the company’s portfolio. It looks a little goofy in still images, but think of it as a fusion between a folding phone and a laptop and you’re pretty much there. The super-tall, 18.1-inch OLED touchscreen display is essentially two screens stacked on top of one another, with a hinge in the middle that lets the screen fold backwards. The “rear” screen, which is essentially just the top half of the same plastic display, can be used to present to other users without needing a secondary monitor.
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The rest of the laptop is fairly conventional, though if you look closely you can see that a kickstand deploys on the rear side for a little extra stability in that super-tall vertical orientation. Lenovo also added some integrated haptic buttons with light-up indicators to the touchpad, a design element we’ve seen on some Asus and Dell laptops before.
Though the ThinkBook Plus laptop line has been where Lenovo sometimes brings outlandish designs to the retail market, there’s no indication that Codename Flip will actually be sold anytime soon. With a vulnerable folding screen exposed on top when the laptop is closed, I can’t imagine it ever will.
What if you want that extra screen real estate to be horizontal? Enter the Magic Bay Dual Display Concept. This add-on for the (real) ThinkBook 16P gives the laptop two extra 13-inch screens, deploying to the left and right on hinges. The device connects to Lenovo’s proprietary Magic Bay expansion port… which is pretty much the only way it varies from existing designs that you’ve been able to buy on Amazon for years. It’s a slick-looking presentation, but once again, this is only a concept.
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Some less-outlandish variations on the extra screen design were also on display at MWC 2025, including the Tiko and Tiko Pro, which add a cute little circular screen to the top of the laptop or a very stretched-out horizontal one, respectively. These designs were positioned as permanent spots for AI-powered extras, though I think one promo image showing a live transcription of a meeting might be more useful. That said, there’s nothing on display (sorry) in these concepts that can’t be done with a regular application running on your laptop’s main window.
Lenovo also showed off a glasses-free 3D laptop display. But once again, it’s purely a concept, which seems underwhelming to me since those devices already exist on retail shelves, albeit in very limited numbers.
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What about real, non-concept designs that you might actually be able to buy? Most of what Lenovo had to share at the trade show are variations on existing ThinkPad and ThinkBook laptops, all getting new chips and gently redesigned chassis for release later this year.
The lone exception is the ThinkPad T14s 2-in-1, the first convertible design to be given the moniker of Lenovo’s most venerated workhorse laptop. The 2-in-1 is based on an Intel Core 200H/U series platform, with a 14-inch 1920×1200 LCD screen, up to 64GB of RAM (soldered in place, sadly) and up to a terabyte of speedy PCIe Gen5 storage.
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The T14s 2-in-1 chassis is a mix of magnesium and aluminum parts, with double USB-C/Thunderbolt 4 ports, two USB-A, HDMI, and Ethernet ports, plus an optional SIM card slot if you go for the optional cellular connection. Other goodies include an IR camera, a physical privacy shutter, and a fingerprint reader. That’s a lot of connectivity options for a 2-in-1 design, but business travelers will appreciate it. They might think a little less of the 3.08-pound (1.4 kilograms) weight class or 19.21mm thickness, especially with a middle-of-the-road 58 watt-hour battery.
The ThinkPad T14s 2-in-1 will be available starting in June for €1,649 before VAT. That’s about $1,730 USD, though I wouldn’t nail that down in terms of US price since we’re in the middle of a trade war that’s driving up expenses across the board.
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