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You might not be taking this thing for a gaming run","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":339.52,"end_s":346.04,"text":"But you could I think this might actually be something a lot of you want just like I know you want more CES coverage","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":346.04,"end_s":350.6,"text":"There's so much to see here so get subscribed to ShortCircuit so you don't miss any of it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"Every laptop is so similar these days, but I'm here at Lenovo's really busy booth So they can reveal the secret that they've been sitting on the Legion Pro rollable in its heart It's pretty damn similar to a Legion 9 I pro with up to a core ultra at 9 275 a checks processor and a mobile 590 except for this one little extra thing that you know kind of makes it special Just freaking look at it it expands from 16 by 10 to 21 by 9 to 24 by 9 And it only adds a couple hundred grams to the total weight and maybe like a centimeter to the screen thickness Honestly, this is really cool and a great implementation of this tech that we've seen viola just gets rolled in and kind of disappears Sadly we can't actually game on this laptop today But it's pretty easy to imagine some sweet gaming uses that this flexibility affords us 21 by 9 is more and more common and 24 by 9 is pretty darn close to anamorphic widescreen So you can imagine the theater like experience you're gonna have watching movies on this bad boy The aim on the final product is to hit a 240 Hertz refresh rate on this OLED screen Although they might have to fall back on 165 Hertz But this concept is currently locked at 60 Hertz and that's because this is being shown off mostly as a prototype Which is Lenovo trying to gauge interest and if the crowds that have been forming around this thing or anything to go by People are very interested in this thing. Do you want this thing? Let us know in the comments below I guess how much you want it is just gonna depend on price Which Lenovo doesn't even know yet because they're still collecting feedback at this stage and although you can see the mechanism for this is Really impressive There's obviously still some things to work out like the scene you can see when you're at an off angle and I've noticed some scratching or some lines that are forming on display as it's been going in and out their aim is to have about 25,000 Expansions built in as a durability with the aim of going higher if possible And I've been told that the earliest that we could see this thing on the market is 2027 so they have a lot of time to figure out these kinks another kind of neat product that you'll want to set a reminder for about a Year is this the AI frame gaming display. It's another prototype So this is an LCD I might not end up being LCD But the thing that makes it special is the AI processor built in that's supposed to help you in different situations and games It's supposed to know what you need check your performance What we're looking at here is Dota 2 and minimap awareness is obviously a big issue for a lot of people So why not expand it make it giant give it a little AI upscale. You know what I'm talking about brother. This is It's alright. It's like a really fancy picture-in-picture mode But I can see some people out there being really excited about this over here We have something that a lot of you students out here might be very interested the Legion 7a and the Legion 5i These are more of a hybrid use laptop that are designed for performance But also to stay unplugged throughout the whole day and you can make it home and still be gaming or do your school work if you're Responsible person. I don't think so the big improvements for the 7i over last year Is this refresh frame that took about 10% of the total weight? Including these shaved hinges that make it that the butt is a lot less big They've also added two up-firing speakers to the two down-firing one and this one supports up to a hundred watt USB-C PD fast charging stat. You can top it up using just a power brick that you can use for all your devices I freaking love USB-C. You know what else I love Over-the-air updates for the Legion glasses. It's gonna have a 3d update just for free over the air. It's freaking awesome I love it next up. We're stretching over to the yoga area where Lenovo is doing its damn This to make me forget all about Apple here. We've got the slim 7 ultra or addition world cup edition I've never seen two additions in one title, but here's the good news You can get it with either the core ultra 7 250 is the or 250 60 up to 12 XE course and this Really nice soft of coating and haptic track pad And a 14 inch 2.8 K 120 Hertz OLED screen and all in a really portable Sub 1 kilogram package. This is something that I actually would really like to put in my backpack instead of this Stupid one I have already the rep was telling me that versus last gen We're seeing about an 8 watt TDP bump. That's because we've got the newer processors These are Panther Lake ones. And so this is no slouch. This was playing Ori at full 2.8 K And it wasn't even challenging the processor at all. This is And laptops have come a long way. I like this thing on laptops this portable I always expect the worst when it comes to their keyboards, but this one has a fair amount to travel I actually think I could get really used to this. This is a beautiful little laptop Wow But if I'm being totally honest the thing I'm most excited about is something that it doesn't seem like a lot of other People are paying attention to and that's the Lenovo yoga mini PC Apparently this category has shown three digits of percentage growth over the last year And that's obviously because the Mac mini has been such a big success And I think Lenovo has a pretty cool product on their hand that could compete with it It starts at seven hundred dollars, although like the Apple products It's competing with the one you really want is gonna cost a little bit more But it can come with a 16 core ultra x7 How these processor names are crazy, but you can get a 16 core ultra x7 358 h with 12 xc cores of graphics processing 32 gigs of LP DDR5 x up to a 2 terabyte PCI SSD This thing is no slouch. You might not be taking this thing for a gaming run But you could I think this might actually be something a lot of you want just like I know you want more CES coverage There's so much to see here so get subscribed to ShortCircuit so you don't miss any of it"}