ThinkBook Plus 17 | 2021-2022

Designers: Lenovo Design Innovation Team, Lenovo, Morrisville, North Carolina, USA
Manufacturer: Lenovo, Morrisville, North Carolina, USA

ThinkBook Plus 17 is a new form factor notebook with two displays, designed for small and medium businesses, focusing on improving productivity. ThinkBook Plus 17 positions itself as a young and fashionable item. Its main display is a 17.3-inch 21:10 aspect ratio ultra-wide display makes it look more unique than anything else on the market.

The ultra-wide screen allows users to arrange more application windows on one screen to increase productivity while working. In addition, the ThinkBook plus has an 8-inch secondary display touchscreen next to the keyboard. It co-works well with the main display, creating many scenarios to help customers work better.

In fact, the significance of Plus 17 is to provide more potential possibilities for multitasking and to provide a richer interactive experience of the keyboard, touch screen, and handwriting at the same time. The flat appearance of ThinkBook plus 17 and its book-spine curve of the back make it look like a real book. The designers not only hope that the laptop can have a very comfortable grip when held in the hand but also hopes it can convey the idea that there is a relationship between the traditional book carrier and modern information device.

The unique two-tone color design on the lid of the notebook is the consistent family design image of the ThinkBook brand. It symbolizes the two scenarios of work and life, implying that ThinkBook products will help customers achieve a balance between work and life. The ThinkBook wears a full metal jacket with anodizing technology on the surface presenting a delicate satin-like feel, which is not only fashionable but also meets the needs of strength and heat dissipation.

In terms of user experience, the up-hinge design is to enable the screen to be completely rotated to 180 degrees. The designers have also optimized the layout of ports and thermal holes, moving them to the back can make the notebook look thinner and cleaner. Anti-glare, anti-reflection, and anti-fingerprint coatings are added to both the main screen and the secondary display, so your eyes won't get tired even if you watch the screen for a long time.

Considering that the stylus is inconvenient to carry and easy to lose, the designers integrated it inside the device. ThinkBook Plus 17 achieves an excellent user experience, creating multiple scenarios to enhance the user experience and productivity. The 17.3-inch main screen can be divided into different areas according to user needs as if you are using several external monitors at the same time.

Each area can show different Apps or pages. The synergy between the main screen and the auxiliary display brings more possibilities. For example, when browsing pictures, the main screen shows pictures, user sees thumbnails for different files on the second screen. Users can engage a "waterfall mode" for scrolling through longer documents that extend from the primary screen to the secondary display.

During online video conferences, the main display shows presentations and participants, and the auxiliary display can take notes, or co-work with the whiteboard function in Teams to communicate seamlessly with participants. For creator users, in some graphic editors, the main display demonstrates the main interface of the software as well as the global picture user’s editing, and the second screen magnifies a local area of the picture so that the user can draw details accurately.

There is also a smartphone-mirroring function for the auxiliary display, which interacts well with other mobile devices.