Evaluating Lenovo PCs For Consumer And Commercial Market For 2025

No PC company embraces excitement and innovation more than Lenovo, which always loves to announce new products and prototypes at CES — as it did again this year. Lenovo announced a slew of gaming products that I covered in a separate article; in this piece I look at its new commercial PC offerings such as the ThinkBook G6. In both categories, Lenovo’s willingness to take risks is what sets it apart from other PC OEMs, and this year the company is once again bringing a robust lineup of new and improved products and industry firsts.

ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable Laptop

This laptop was the star of the show for Lenovo at CES 2025. It was so popular, in fact, that Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips brought it onto The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and wowed his global popstar guest Bad Bunny. That video made it to the top five trending videos on YouTube and got over a million views in under a day.

So, what made this laptop so exciting? Well, it’s the first commercially shipping rollable laptop, which gives the user more screen space without increasing the form factor of the device. I got the opportunity to play with this laptop at Lenovo’s booth during CES 2025, and it was truly eye-opening to see it expand from a 14-inch screen to 16.7 inches in a matter of seconds. The potential for this feature is virtually unlimited, but I can already imagine people working on code or in spreadsheets loving this capability.

Lenovo co-engineered the laptop with Intel, which means that it sports an Intel Core 7 Ultra processor, giving it fairly good battery life. I would say that this is far from the thinnest laptop that I’ve seen from Lenovo, but you have to remember that a considerable amount of the display needs to live under the keyboard when it’s rolled up. Lenovo says that this ThinkBook will be available starting in June 2025 at $3,499. Lenovo was also one of the first companies to embrace foldable laptops, so I’m not entirely surprised to see it being the first with a rollable as well. Both technologies have their place, but I do believe that having a diversity of foldables and rollables will be good for the PC industry.

ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition Laptop

Like all ThinkPad Aura Editions, this is also an Intel-based notebook — but with a major redesign from Lenovo. The X9 is a slimmer notebook than the X1 Carbon I recently covered. It comes in two sizes, 14-inch and 15-inch, and features a redesigned compute and cooling stack. There’s a physical bump on the bottom of the laptop where most of the compute and cooling lives, which also means that Lenovo can finally put a Thunderbolt 4 Type-C port on each side of the laptop for charging. Unfortunately, those are the only two USB ports on the laptop, accompanying the headphone jack and HDMI port. That aside, this ThinkPad X9 has upgrades across the board. I was quite impressed with the form factor and glad to see that Lenovo has listened to user complaints about issues like not having USB-C ports for charging on both sides of the laptop. Lenovo also addressed one of my biggest complaints about earlier generations by upgrading to a 9-megapixel webcam, significantly improving the video conferencing experience.

As with the X1 Carbon, Lenovo opted for an OLED on this laptop and certified it with MIL-SPEC 810H durability. The X9 Aura also features a 100% recycled cobalt user-replaceable battery, and the chassis is made of 50% recycled aluminum. Lenovo has also included a bunch of smart AI features which include Smart Modes, Smart Share and Smart Care. There are also many useful accessories for it, including the new 65-watt GaN nano adapter that I also used on the X1 Carbon. There’s a new X9 Charging GaN Dock, which serves as both a dock and a charger, as well as a new multi-device wireless mouse with AI capabilities and a trigger for Lenovo’s AI NOW, its app for AI features. There are even true wireless earbuds and origami sleeves for the laptop to make it easier to use and travel with. The 14-inch and 15-inch versions of the X9 start at $1,239 on Lenovo’s website.

Lenovo’s Many Yoga 9i Laptops

The Yoga 9i lineup is probably where Lenovo could use some consolidation or improve its product naming scheme. The fact that there are three different versions of the Yoga 9i is very confusing. The Yoga Slim 9i is a 14-inch notebook with a 120-hertz OLED display that has a 98% screen-to-body ratio and is the first commercially available laptop with the webcam under the display. The Yoga Slim 9i is also a Copilot+ PC powered by an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor with a 48 TOPS NPU, and it features a beefy 75 Whr battery — all while weighing only 2.62 pounds.

The Yoga Book 9i is another 14-inch notebook, but features a dual-OLED display configuration, along with a magnetic wireless keyboard and an understandably huge 88 Whr battery to power both displays. Somehow, it still weighs only 2.69 pounds. This is not to be confused with the Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition, which is yet another 14-inch notebook featuring an OLED display, but ships with an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor and Copilot+ PC capabilities. It also has a 75 Whr battery, but weighs 2.91 pounds. The Yoga Slim 9i will start at $1,849 in February, while the Yoga Book 9i will begin selling in May at $1,999, and the Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition will start at $1,599 in February.

ThinkCentre Neo 50q

Last but certainly not least is the ThinkCentre Neo 50q desktop PC. Normally, there isn’t much to talk about when it comes to business desktop PCs, but this one is special because it’s a very small form-factor PC running the newly announced Qualcomm Snapdragon X or Snapdragon X Plus processor. This should make it an extremely accessible platform for getting Copilot+ capabilities on a desktop, which has been limited to laptops up until now. While there have been some AMD- and Intel-based mini desktop PCs announced by companies such as Geekom, those are focused mainly on SMB users and not as much on consumers.

The ThinkCentre Neo is also considerably smaller than the standard NUC-style desktop PC we’ve seen for years, and it could easily be mounted on the back of monitors without the user being aware of its presence. Lenovo is pricing the Neo 50q at $849, and it will be available starting in February. I am excited to get my hands on this device mostly because of its size, but also because of its low cost and (what should be) relatively high AI performance.

Lenovo’s Calculated Risks With Consumer And Business PCs

Lenovo’s continues to take risks in its consumer and business PCs, and to work closely with the leading chip vendors to enable unique and powerful AI solutions. The company is also leveraging AI to help deploy PCs more quickly and maximize ROI with programs like AI PC Fast Start for enterprises, which focus on deploying the right AI-ready devices to the correct users and pairing those devices with lifecycle services to ensure a high level of support. Lenovo has lots of unique products coming down the pipeline this year, and I’m interested to see how the market responds to them, especially with major expectations of a refresh coming this year accelerated by the end of Windows 10 support.

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