MWC 2026 is in full swing, and as much as this is a show traditionally dedicated to the world of mobile phones, we’ve seen a decent flurry of intriguing laptops make their way onto the show floor that have wowed us quite a bit.
Now, finding five of these was trickier than you may anticipate, and some of them are more proofs of concept than finished consumer products, but it’s still an intriguing look into what type of tech we may well be using in the future, plus some top Windows contenders you’ll soon get to try yourself.
Lenovo ThinkBook Modular AI PC Concept
Lenovo loves a concept device — it’s shown off loads at MWC 2026 — and the ThinkBook Modular AI PC Concept genuinely feels like a device you’d want to buy in the not-too-distant future.
Some of the company’s previous efforts have involved rollable and extendable displays, such as the Legion Pro Rollable from this year’s CES, which adds the powers of an extendable 21:9 aspect ratio OLED screen into an otherwise quite normal-looking laptop chassis.
The ThinkBook Modular AI PC Concept, however, feels like a lovechild of an Asus Zenbook Duo (2026) and something from the good folks at Framework. It’s a versatile and integrally modular laptop with two screens: one on the front and one on the back. The rear screen can be removed via a magnetic connector and used as a portable second screen by wire, or moved to the side if you only need one display, adding an extra dimension over Asus’s dual-screen design.
As with the Zenbook Duo, Lenovo has also provided a removable Bluetooth keyboard that can be attached atop the bottom screen to be used in a more conventional form factor. You also have the option of putting the laptop up on its kickstand, and using the keyboard separately.
The bottom side of the ThinkBook Modular AI PC Concept’s chassis is home to two modular I/O ports that work in a similar way to Framework. This means you can pop out the ports on either side and chop and change them depending on what you need at any one time. You can choose between USB-C, USB-A and HDMI for the privilege, providing an additional element of flexibility.
This is a prototype, but Lenovo’s demo rig feels remarkably well put together, and like a product that isn’t too far from release. Its modularity and versatility are very clever, and as we’ve seen them already with the Asus Zenbook Duo (2026) and the litany of repairable laptops from Framework, I have high hopes for the ThinkBook Modular AI PC Concept.
Lenovo Yoga Book Pro 3D Concept
Sticking with the power of dual screens, Lenovo used its stand at MWEC to show off the Yoga Book Pro 3D Concept, which proves that the age-old dream of mainstream 3D will never die. I thought we’d abandoned the point of everything having 3D crammed into it, but it seems like Lenovo wants to bring it back in a more specialized manner.
This isn’t a laptop designed for everyday users. Instead it’s aimed at 3D artists, creators, and makers of stuff. The main screen of this concept uses a glasses-free 3D panel, and has clever eye-tracking tech in the webcam. This is used to keep track of where your eyes are looking, keeping the 3D image on-screen in perfect clarity if you move around.
The bottom display is a high-res touchscreen that can be used for more conventional drawing work, and to create 3D art. These images can then be ‘sent’ to the top screen, so you can view your 3D creations properly and efficiently to determine if they’re any good.
If that wasn’t clever enough, you can also use the webcam in conjunction with gestures in the air to manipulate objects on the top screen. For instance, pinching your fingers on both hands and moving in a typical zoom action on a touchscreen results in the object on screen being zoomed in.
For something a little more advanced, if you rotate your hands a little while zooming, you can spin the object around on-screen.
Judging the utility of the Yoga Book Pro 3D Concept on a very busy (and baking hot) show floor is quite difficult, but I found the gesture controls and eye-tracking all very clever and quite natural-feeling.
I still don’t see much use for this machine outside of very specialist use cases, but if this sounds like a bit of you, then hold out some hope, and Lenovo may answer your prayers and bring it to market.
Honor MagicBook Pro 14
Moving over to one of the few commercially available laptops on the show floor at MWC, Honor has lifted the lid on its MagicBook Pro 14 — the latest in its beefier MacBook-rivalling pro-grade Windows laptop range.
This was actually shown off at an event before the exhibition opened, during a keynote speech where the brand made a lot of its MacBook-rivalling credentials — such as having up to 15.5 hours of runtime on a charge from its hefty 92Whr battery. For reference, the company reckons a comparable MacBook Pro will run for around 13 hours before running dry.
The MagicBook Pro 14 comes equipped with Intel‘s latest Panther Lake silicon in three different variants, the most powerful of which is the flagship Intel Core Ultra X9 388H chip. I’ve tested this chip in the Asus Zenbook Duo (2026), and it provides some genuinely impressive power in both the 16-core and 16-thread CPU, and the Intel Arc B390 iGPU.
The graphical horsepower of this chip is particularly impressive, with Intel kitting the top-end chip out with 12 Xe3 cores that provide a healthy amount of grunt, making tasks such as playing AAA games (like Cyberpunk 2077 or Returnal) at 1080p, or rendering 4K video much easier than they would have been on Intel’s older chips.
The lower-end variants of the MagicBook Pro 14 aren’t likely to come with the B390, at which point you’re left with a much worse iGPU that won’t be as capable. If you need the power, then you’ll want to stump up for the top-spec model, rather than the Core Ultra 6 336H or 338H models.
As for other specs, you’ve got either 24GB or 32GB of RAM available, plus a roomy 1TB SSD. The MagicBook Pro 14 also has two M.2 2280 slots, so this can be expanded if you find that 1TB isn’t enough. Having upgradeable storage is quite rare on ultrabooks, so it’s a very welcome addition.
Regardless of which version you plump for, this laptop has a very detailed 3120×2080 120Hz OLED screen that impressed me with its brightness and definition in a quick hands-on on the show floor. Granted, you can only get so much from a few-minute demo, but it left a good impression. The bezels around the screen are nice and thin, too, lending to a modern look, alongside the reasonably light 3.8lb / 1.37kg metal frame.
When it comes to ports, Honor has given this laptop a pair of USB-Cs and USB-As, alongside an HDMI 2.1 and a headphone jack. That’s a pleasant blend of modern and legacy ports, and is great for what most folks are likely to use. If Honor is taking aim at the MacBook Pro though, an SD card reader is the only thing missing.
You also get the benefit of an island-style, compact keyboard tray with arrow keys and a function row alongside the alphanumeric keys. The keyboard felt quite positive and tactile in its actuation, which should make it a dead cert for banging out essays or emails. I’m quite a fan of the force-touch haptic trackpad too, which felt slick and roomy.
Even though the MagicBook Pro 14 is in the hands of some journalists at the moment, Honor hasn’t announced any concrete pricing or availability information for it just yet. For the specs on offer, it’s likely to come in at a similar price to the MacBook Pro the brand has been quick to compare it to, plus the likes of the new Asus Zenbook S14 (2026) as a Windows counterpart.
Lenovo Yoga Pro 7a
Returning to the world of Lenovo, although its clever concepts are the main draw, there are some products on the show floor that the brand is actually launching — my favourite of which is the Lenovo Yoga Pro 7a.
It’s one of the first laptops to come with one of AMD‘s Strix Halo chips inside — the Ryzen AI Max 395+, which is the beefiest option in the line-up, and something you’ll find packed into an array of mini PCs and the odd gaming handheld. The only other laptop I’ve seen this chip in was the Asus ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition that launched a couple of weeks ago. I was wowed by the power of this chip’s iGPU, which makes it the fastest chip of its kind.
In the case of the Yoga Pro 7a, that graphical horsepower is needed more for creative workloads than outright gaming, as this is a potent 2-in-1 device. To go with it, there is 128GB of unified memory that’s shared between the CPU and GPU, which is handy for not only giving the iGPU enough VRAM, but also allowing you to try your hand at any large AI models.
To boost this laptop’s creative credentials, Lenovo bundles in a Yoga Pen Gen 2 stylus, and you can even use the ‘Force Pad’ (trackpad) as a drawing surface. For this, Lenovo has enlisted the help of the drawing tablet aficionados at Wacom for precise sketching, annotating, and manipulating designs all from the trackpad.
For viewing content you’ve created, the Yoga Pro 7a has a mid-sized 15.3-inch 2.5K resolution ‘Puresight Pro OLED’ panel that I thought looked rather sharp when messing around with the laptop on the show floor. It felt bright and crisp, and I can see why it feels like a good pairing for this creative-driven laptop.
Lenovo has leaned in to an Apple-inspired design with this laptop, especially with the island-style, smaller layout keyboard, complete with arrow keys and a function row. This is flanked by two speaker grilles, and the four speakers inside this laptop are Dolby Atmos-certified for added immersion and spatial audio. Port action comes in the form of a USB-C port on each side, plus extras in the form of a full-size SD card reader and USB-A.
The Yoga Pro 7a is the only laptop I have some concrete release information for, with Lenovo stating we should see it in June 2026, with a price tag of €2499. That puts it in the same ball park as Asus’ GoPro collab and up there with the latest crop of MacBook Pros. Mighty expensive, in any case.
Lenovo Legion Go Fold Concept
OK, this last entry isn’t technically a laptop, but it can be used in that form factor in a clever way, so I’ll let it slide. The Lenovo Legion Go Fold Concept is more of an insight into the sky-high idea of a foldable gaming handheld, combining the more traditional form factor of a gaming handheld, such as the Lenovo Legion Go 2 or Asus ROG Xbox Ally X, with the versatility of a folding display you’d see on any of the best foldable phones.
In terms of form factor, this is a 7.7-inch gaming tablet with detachable controllers (a la Nintendo Switch 2 and Legion Go 2) that, on its own, seems about the right size for a handheld, if the current competition is anything to go by.
However, the Legion Go Fold Concept has an extra couple of tricks up its sleeve. The screen can unfold to a hefty 11.6-inch panel and be used as a much bigger handheld in the device’s horizontal ‘Horizon’ mode.
Alternatively you can rotate the screen vertically, re-pair the two controllers, and use the device in a split-screen mode. Here, it works more like the Asus Zenbook Duo, where you can have half of the screen for a game, and the other half for anything else, such as navigating websites, or catching up on social media.
You can also attach the two controllers to a mount (as with the Switch 2) to give it more of a conventional controller layout, and then use the Legion Go Fold on a kickstand with an additional keyboard attachment with its ‘Expanded Desktop’ mode. This lends it more of a ‘laptop’ feel than a traditional gaming handheld, and gives this Lenovo option more of a use case outside of gaming. We’ve seen folks plug a Steam Deck or ROG Ally into a dock, and then into a monitor, to use it as a computer in a pinch, and it’s pleasant that the Legion Go Fold Concept can do this if you’d like it to.
The concept is powered by an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V processor, complete with its Arc 140T iGPU and 32GB of RAM, which is similar in specs to a lot of previous-gen handhelds. Lenovo has said this wouldn’t be locked in if the Legion Go Fold Concept were to make it to market, especially given it’s technically a chip from the last generation of Intel’s mobile processors. Perhaps a retail variant may be bumped up to a top-end Panther Lake chip with Intel’s shiny new B390 iGPU — rumors have circled that may see a specific variant for gaming handhelds, and this seems like the prime device for it.
Naturally, as this is a concept device, I’d wager it isn’t going to make it to market any time soon. Lenovo still needs to work out how to turn half the screen off when the Legion Go Fold Concept’s panel is folded backwards.
Plus, this kind of foldable screen, where half of it is ‘behind’ the rest of the device (and almost always unfolded), may make it more prone to scratching. It isn’t a form factor we’ve seen among folding phones very often either, with one of the last attempts coming with Huawei’s older book-style foldables. The obvious reason for this is that there isn’t any kind of Gorilla Glass for screens that fold in this way, meaning you’re bereft of any protections besides your own common sense to prevent any accidental drops or mishaps.
The Lenovo Legion Go Fold Concept may have its caveats, but at the end of the day, it is a concept device, and that’s what demo rigs like this are for – to iron out issues and potentially bring the device to market. It’s certainly one of the more exciting and innovative concepts Lenovo has released in a while that has some genuine utility if it gets beyond the pie-in-the-sky stage.
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