Solar panels are looking for new ways Suitable for unfamiliar places. With that in mind, it took anyone too long to try to glue it directly into their laptop. For MWC 2025, Lenovo demonstrates the concept of yoga solar PC. Too many laptops claim even if you never get 24 hours of battery life. I've seen yoga solar in action, and it's fun because it can actually last 24 hours without having to plug it in.
Welcome to Lenovo's weird concept product world. The company is Known for the apparently weird laptops and making it a reality, like the $3500 Thinkbook Plus 6 Collable debut At CES 2025. With several new yoga, thought book and ThinkPad laptops launched (if you're praying, yes, the big red tracking point is back), Lenovo is showing some wild designs. There is a range of mobile devices with a totally weird display, including some folds that fold back and an extra screen that you can plug into the back of the laptop cover. None of these have price and no hint of possible release. But when most laptops look and feel so similar, there is still room for innovation—even if some designs are not practical.
Lenovo Yoga solar PC is relatively thin, although the solar panels are covered
Yoga solar computers have made the best impression from the crowded concept laptop field. The solar panels on the cover have a supposed 24% solar conversion rate, which is already impressive, knowing that the normal conversion rate for most user-side solar panels is between 15% and 22%. Lenovo claims to achieve this by manipulating mesh lines you usually find on solar panels behind solar cells, providing more real estate to absorb energy. The laptop can also measure the current voltage, which is translated and prioritizes specific system settings.
Like any solar panel, this doesn’t require direct sunlight to get power, but the difference is important when I point out windows on sunny days. Lenovo's software shows that when facing the sun, when facing the sun, the power accumulation in the sun is about 7 V. You may get more when it is direct sunlight. Despite the presence of solar panels, the laptop still weighs more than 2.6 pounds, which doesn't exceed most modern laptops' expectations.
We should note that the panel does not generate the power required to run the PC continuously. Lenovo claims that 20 minutes of direct sunlight will turn into about an hour of video playback battery life. Depending on the CPU and battery, this may be 1/20 of the laptop's battery life. This concept PC is running on the Intel Lunar Lake chip, which is already relatively effective. This can be convenient for construction workers who don't want to plug their laptop into a truck lathe. Hell, I want to take it to the park to do some work so that my laptop and I can absorb some light.
What about a “flip” bendable thought book?
Don't think that this is just a new thing to try with a flexible screen. Lenovo's Thought Book “codenamed Flip” (why do concept laptops need codenames?) is another way to get a 18.1-inch, vertically thought OLED screen. Nevertheless, it achieves the goal of rolling with the rollable by folding from the lid. This also means that the user flips the opposite side can see a part of the screen. The PC supports Workspace split screen to display different images at the rear and front. The obvious problem with this design is that even if the cover is closed, it will cause the screen to bend and the folded parts to be exposed. Lenovo needs a solution to prevent extra screen from dust and unexpected bumps.
But what if you want more screen space on the horizontal axis? The new Lenovo Thembook 16p Gen 6 Magic Bay Expander is here. Dual screens are essentially Same as Xebecwith two wings inserted into the Thunderbolt port of the PC to add multiple screens. Lenovo's design uses pins on Magic Bay to eliminate the need to use valuable ports. While I think a more practical compact 8-inch display may remain slack and open without relying on an external display, there are already many dual monitors. We found that the Xebec could be heavy and needed a stand to keep the laptop cover upright. The double display Magic Bay concept has the same problem.
But there are more. Take the idea of ​​Lenovo's 3D screen in the form of curved displays and laptops as an example. It is similar to Samsung's 3D technology, which relies on eye tracking to produce artificial 3D images on the screen. It only works when you sit directly in front of it, so the camera can't pick up the image either. The 3D image does look extra radiant on a 34-inch curved display, and if you can't stand the appearance of the Nintendo 3DS, you can change it to 2D with a single switch.
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There are so many concepts for this equipment manufacturer that, by contrast, the regular product you can buy seems to be blas. That Thinkbook 16p Gen 6 can reach Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, NVIDIA RTX 5070 and 64 GB of RAM. The Yoga series also has Intel Aura Edition versions, such as the Yoga Pro 9i with the new Intel Core Ultra and NVIDIA RTX 5070 discrete GPUs. The Yoga Pro 7i Aura Edition has a 3K OLED display that can reach an Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU.
As for ThinkPad fans, Big News is the first 2-in-2 convertible in the form of the ThinkPad T14 for the business laptop series. The 14-inch cable includes an AMD Ryzen Pro AI 300 CPU or Intel Core Ultra 7 h, U or V line (depending on the CPU's different RAM options. Ultra H and U and Ryzen Pro also get OLED displays with 2.8k OLED. Then, there is also the X13 Gen 6, x13 gen Abletable of the x thinkpad the thinkpad the Portable a Protable of the Nipple the nipple “nipple”. This year's X9 drops haptics, even in a wild concept world, sometimes.
