At Accelerate 2019, Lenovo previewed
At its Accelerate 2019 event in Orlando today, Lenovo previewed “the world’s first foldable PC.” The new product doesn’t have a name, price tag, or ship date. We do know, however, that the foldable PC will be part of Lenovo’s flagship ThinkPad X1 line and that it will arrive in 2020.
Foldable PCs already exist — they’re called laptops. Lenovo is of course describing a PC where the screen itself can be folded, similar to Samsung’s Galaxy Fold and Huawei’s Mate X smartphones.
Lenovo backs up its “the world’s first foldable PC” claim by saying it looked at laptops sold by major PC manufacturers this month. None shipped more than “1 million units worldwide annually” with foldable screens. Apparently Lenovo is hoping to ship at least 1 million units of its new foldable PC in the first year.
Lenovo is either first or second in global PC shipments, depending on who you ask. The company certainly has the ability to deliver on that number, if the demand is there. “In terms of global availability, we’re going to follow the same launch capabilities that we have on the X1 line,” Tom Butler, Lenovo’s ThinkPad marketing director, told VentureBeat.
