Lenovo can be regarded for its extreme commercial enterprise laptops, however that doesn’t forestall it from making a few extra outlandish designs: for CES 2022, meaning the brand new ThinkBook Plus Gen three. The 0.33 in the “Plus” collection adjustments tack from the twin-show technique of its predecessors, eliminating the secondary e-paper display screen of earlier than and alternatively setting a widespread 8-inch show along the keyboard.

The ThinkBook Plus Gen three’s number one display screen is a 17.three-inch ultra-extensive 21:10 element IPS panel. It’s a hefty 3K resolution (3072 x 1440) with a 120Hz refresh rate, contact aid, and 100�I-P3 colour gamut coverage.

Smaller, however no much less attention-grabbing, is the secondary display screen however. It’s an 8-inch LCD touchscreen located to the proper of the keyboard, going for walks at 800 x 12800 resolution. As nicely as accepting finger input, it’ll paintings with Lenovo’s pen stylus; there’s an anti-scratch coating to keep away from that scuffing the surface.

The result, Lenovo argues, is the first-rate of twin-display screen productiveness in a pocket book you could nevertheless take at the road. Yes, the ThinkBook Plus Gen three pointers the scales at four.four kilos and is a not-inconsiderable 0.7 inches thick, however that’s nevertheless loads extra bag-pleasant than a normal pc and a secondary display screen.

The 2nd show may be used for application-unique tools, consisting of artwork brushes and so on in Photoshop. Or, it is able to be used for a continual chat window, or as a virtual notepad in the course of meetings. The Magic Launcher alongside the lowest has shortcuts for key apps, and there’s a calculator button which immediately pulls up that app too.

With the stylus, the 8-inch display screen may be used as a photographs pill alternatively. Alternatively, there’s aid for phone mirroring with choose phones.

Given all that chassis space, Lenovo has unsurprisingly packed in a few extreme specs too. There’s a twelfth Gen Intel Core H-Series processor, as much as 32GB of LPDDR5 memory, and as much as 2TB of M.2 PCIe Gen four SSD storage. Intel Iris Xe photographs drives each presentations, and there’s a Full HD IR webcam – with a bodily privateness shutter – above the higher show. Dual array microphones, 2x2W Harman-Kardon audio system with Dolby Atmos aid, and a sixty nine Whr battery spherical matters out.

For connectivity, there’s a Thunderbolt four port, one USB-C with DP and PD aid, USB Type-A, an HDMI output, and audio jack. No 5G option, sadly, however you do get WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.1. There’s a fingerprint reader baked into the strength button, too.

Arguably what’s maximum unexpected approximately the ThinkBook Plus Gen three is how inexpensive it is. Where the Gen 2 version commenced at $1,549, this new edition with its twin presentations will start at $1,399 whilst it is going on sale in May. There’ll be a unique Sling Backpack for it too, priced at $sixty nine.99.