Leave it to Lenovo to revisit the past for its next novel laptop. The ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist is meant for the workplace, letting people twist the display to show presentations or other material around meeting rooms, evoking the company’s prior designs such as the 2012 Lenovo ThinkPad Twist.
But the twist of this year’s Twist is how Lenovo is functionally applying AI to its rotating screen approach. The screen doesn’t just twist manually — it’s motorized, and uses the camera to follow you as you move around the laptop, like a physical version of Apple’s Center Stage tech.
Unlike some of Lenovo’s AI products showcased this year, the Gen 7 Auto Twist is actually coming to market in June 2026, with a starting price of $1,650. The laptop was first shown off as a concept device back at CES 2024, and looks much the same now that it’s finalized for commercial sale, though Lenovo said in a press release this new version rotates faster and more quietly.
At Lenovo’s showcase area at CES 2026, I saw the Gen 7 Auto Twist in action as it rotated its display to follow me. It also has another AI-powered mode in which the screen lights up with two large kewpie eyes, giving the laptop a surprisingly companionable personality. It’s meant to respond to voice commands as well, but the noisy demo floor made some of them hard to hear, so I’ll chalk that up to the environment — and note that it’s not something I can personally vouch for in the finished laptop.
The Gen 7 Auto Twist is positioned as a lightweight (just over 3 pounds) work laptop rather than a powerful machine, running Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors. Its 14-inch 2.8K OLED display is sharp but not particularly bright (500 nits), making it suitable for indoor use.
The Gen 7 Auto Twist is just one of many laptops Lenovo showed off at CES 2026, including its ThinkPad Rollable XD Concept laptop with a screen that rises vertically and its Legion Pro Rollable laptop concept intended for gamers to expand their display horizontally for better gaming on the go.
Lenovo hasn’t shared when, or if, those devices will be made into commercial versions, but since the Gen 7 Auto Twist was shown off at CES as a concept only two years ago, it’s possible we could see either of those rollables reach the market in the years to come.
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