Update: The Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable has won best of gaming in CNet's Best of CES Awards.

For the last few years, rollable displays have been the star of CES, but they're usually found in extremely expensive – and quickly discontinued – TVs. At CES 2026, though, Lenovo is showing off a gaming laptop that uses a rollable OLED display that can stretch to an ultrawide aspect ratio.

While it's still just a concept, the Lenovo Legion Pro Rollable is pitched to include a 'top-spec' Intel Core Ultra processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090. That super-powerful graphics chip is necessary, too, given the extra pixels it needs to push once the display is stretched out in all of its 24:9 glory.

Keep in mind, though, that because this is still a just a concept, you shouldn't expect it to hit store shelves any time soon. As such, the specs are likely to change if and when this rollable laptop ever makes it to market. Lenovo unsurprisingly hasn't revealed any kind of pricing for the Legion Pro Rollable Concept, either. But if it does come out, expect it to cost a few thousand bucks.

Stretchy Laptop

Lenovo showed me the concept back in December in New York, and it's clearly in early stages. For instance, the Lenovo rep had to mess with the command line to even get the display to roll itself out. In the short few weeks between when I initially saw it and CES itself, Lenovo has fixed this. The display now extends out with a simple key combination: just press down the Fn button and the right or left arrow keys to extend or shrink the display, respectively. Even for a concept, the motion was extraordinarily smooth, and will likely get even better if this laptop ever actually sees the light of day.

But because of the mechanism needed to have a rollable display like this, the laptop is quite heavy. Again, it's a concept, so Lenovo isn't sharing any hard specs, but this laptop has to weigh close to 8 or 10 pounds. Thats something else that'll likely be improved if this laptop comes out – a repeating theme.

The laptop by default has a resolution of 2048 x 1280 at a 16:10 aspect ratio. That's a weird resolution, for sure, but it's not exactly impressive by modern gaming laptop standards. However, that default screen configuration isn't really the point. The laptop's display can roll out to two different sizes, resulting in either a 21:9 display with a resolution of 2986 x 1280 or a 3413 x 1280 24:9 display.

No matter what, that means that the Legion Pro Rollable is a FHD laptop, but that just means that the RTX 5090 this thing is packing – for now – won't have any problem driving high framerates, even in super-demanding games. After all, Lenovo is calling these stretched out display modes "Tactical Mode" and "Arena Mode" for the 21:9 and 24:9 modes, respectively, so it seems it wants this to appeal to esports gamers.

If this actually comes out, I wouldn't recommend it to any esports gamers, though. Instead, the ultrawide display appeals much more to gamers that like more immersive and story-based games. There is just something about jumping into an open world and having it take up your entire field of view. That's why ultrawide displays are my favorite gaming monitors, and now we can potentially get that on a gaming laptop.

Unfortunately, the laptop didn't have any actual games installed on it either time I tried it, so I don't know how it handles actually playing games. I did try digging around the PC when no one was looking to find something installed, but instead all I got to do was extend and retract the display over and over again. That was fun, but I would have loved to see how the computer was able to handle the extra pixels introduced by extending the screen.

Unfortunately, I'll have to wait until Lenovo decides this is worth releasing into the wild to actually benchmark it. Until then, I'll just dream of booting up the Witcher 3 with the display extended all the way out to its 24:9 mode.

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon X and X2 processors may finally have access to Fortnite and Epic’s Easy Anti-Cheat, but despite how much Qualcomm is trying to push gaming on the Snapdragon platform this year, I just don’t care.

Fortnite runs on smartphones, after all. And while Easy Anti-Cheat opens up a whole new slate of games for Snapdragon X-series laptops, most of the titles we’ve seen running on Qualcomm systems aren’t exactly GPU intensive. Baldur’s Gate 3 was one of the bigger games shown on the original Snapdragon X Elite platform, though performance on Qualcomm’s reference designs hardly held up when compared to actual consumer systems.

And at CES 2026, Qualcomm was showing off its new high-end Snapdragon X2 Extreme chip running Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider in 2026?

Look. I love Shadow of the Tomb Raider. It’s a great game. It’s a great benchmark. But the game hit gaming PCs way back in September 2018 – over 7 years ago. It was a graphically intense game back on the RTX 2080. While it is impressive to see how smooth the game runs on integrated GPUs at 1080p and High graphics settings these days, it’s not exactly a bragging point.

Especially when AMD was running Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 at over 30 fps native on the Lenovo Legion Go 2’s Ryzen Z2 Extreme last year, and Intel is showing off thin and light Panther Lake laptops running Battlefield 6 with frame rates hitting over 200 fps (though that is with multi-frame generation).

While Qualcomm’s reference design Snapdragon X2 Extreme laptop did have Cyberpunk 2077 and Black Myth: Wukong installed, neither game was running for the press demos. Instead, the company wanted to talk about using AI voice changing features while gaming, rather than talk performance.

Integrated GPU Performance Matters Most on Handhelds

When it comes to iGPU gaming, handheld gaming PCs are king. While I love being able to play some games on a general consumer or business laptop because I’m a monster, few people are going to use a Lenovo Yoga or Dell laptop for gaming.

And when it comes to handhelds, well. AMD got an early lead in the handheld market, and Intel is still trying to claw out space for itself. Qualcomm hasn’t even tried. At this point, it’s probably too late. Between the AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme, Intel Lunar Lake, and the recently teased Intel Panther Lake handheld chips, Qualcomm’s opportunity to get a Snapdragon handheld out on the market has passed.

iGPU Gaming Only Goes So Far

While every gaming handheld around right now is an iGPU machine, no one is going to buy a general consumer laptop for gaming. Since Qualcomm doesn’t have a handheld, this makes the Snapdragon X platform’s lack of discrete GPUs even more obvious.

After all, a Microsoft Surface Laptop isn’t a gaming device. If it can run games, cool. But it’s not a gaming platform. Sure, Qualcomm laptops can now utilize AMD FSR and Qualcomm’s custom Snapdragon Game Super Resolution upscaling features, but it’s just not enough reason to care. Between having no handhelds, using reference design laptops that won’t hit the market, and not talking actual performance expectations using modern game titles, Snapdragon gaming isn’t any more compelling than it was last generation.

Madeline (She/Her) is a contributing writer at IGN. She’s been writing about comics, tech, and gaming since 2013. Her byline has appeared at sites like Laptop Mag, PCMag, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, CGMagazine, and Bleeding Cool.