Intel's budget Wildcat Lake chips are starting to ship in real laptops, kicking off with the $449 Chuwi UniBook and a wave of Chinese-market notebooks built on the same silicon.
RedMagic's 11S Pro and 11S Pro+ pair an overclocked Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 running at 4.74GHz with a 24,000 RPM internal fan and up to 16GB of RAM.
Qualcomm's $13 QCC74xM evaluation kits pack Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Thread/Zigbee around a 325 MHz RISC-V core that is essentially a rebadged Bouffalo Lab BL618.
Geniatech's APC888 pairs NXP's i.MX 95 with an M.2 slot that accepts Hailo, MemryX, DeepX, or Kinara AI accelerators up to 40 TOPS, running Yocto Linux.
Added Orange Pi 6 Plus (12-core, dual 5GbE, $199+). Updated Raspberry Pi 5 prices (RAM crisis: 4GB $75, 8GB $115). Updated Radxa X4 to 2.5GbE and corrected pricing. Updated ZimaBoard 2 to retail pricing ($279+).
The best handheld gaming PCs for Bazzite in 2026, with updated prices, the new ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X, Legion Go S tariff price notes, and Valve confirming Steam Deck 2 is years away.
Debian 12.14 lands with a massive batch of CVE fixes spanning GRUB, glibc, openssh, containerd, and the Linux kernel, plus the latest installer images for bookworm.
Marek Olšák, one of Mesa's most prolific contributors and a longtime AMD developer behind the modern RadeonSI driver, has joined Valve's growing Linux graphics team.
Lenovo's ThinkPad P14s Gen 7 mobile workstation pairs AMD Ryzen AI Pro silicon with a wild nine-tier memory ladder running from 16 GB to 96 GB of DDR5-5600.
Debian 13.5 ships with roughly 100 package updates, headlined by massive FreeRDP and Apache CVE batches plus a StarFive RISC-V USB boot fix.
SDL just merged full button mapping for Valve's 2026 Steam Controller, letting cross-platform games address the gamepad without going through the Steam client.
Lenovo's new 16-inch mobile workstation ships with Intel Core Ultra 7 356H, a 2.8K OLED panel, and user-upgradeable LPCAMM2 memory up to 96 GB.
Asus crams an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX, RTX 5080 mobile graphics, and up to 128GB of DDR5 into a 3-liter toolless chassis with WiFi 7 and Thunderbolt 4.
Lenovo's new ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 keeps user-replaceable LPCAMM2 RAM, pairs Intel Core Ultra Series 2 chips with an optional 2.8K OLED panel, and starts at $1,620.
SDL3 has merged native support for Valve's new Steam Controller, exposing touchpads, capacitive stick touch, and grip sense to games without needing the Steam client running.
Bazzite's latest stable image lands kernel 6.19.14-ogc5, Mesa 26.0.5, Gamescope 137, KDE Plasma 6.6.4, and a built-in fwupd flatpak for GUI firmware updates.
