Acer Swift Air 14 Ships With Wildcat Lake, the Chip Intel Already Upstreamed to Linux
Acer's Swift Air 14 is among the first Wildcat Lake laptops, and Intel has already upstreamed the CPU, Xe3 graphics, and NPU support into mainline Linux and Mesa.
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.
Beelink's modular ME Pro mini PC/NAS hybrid is gaining Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, Ryzen 7, and Core i5 chip options, bringing a 50 TOPS NPU to a storage-focused box.
Wine 11.10 ships with VKD3D 2.0 for improved Direct3D 12 over Vulkan, native XPath support without libxml2, VBScript fixes, and 17 bug fixes.
Acer's new Nitro Blaze Link runs Debian Linux, weighs 464 grams, and is built purely for streaming games from a PC rather than running them locally.
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon C SoC targets $300 Arm Windows laptops using older Kryo cores, with Acer, HP, and Lenovo models shipping later in 2026.
Acer's Predator Atlas 8 is one of the first handhelds powered by Intel's new Arc G-Series chips, with up to a 12-core Arc B390 iGPU and a 120 Hz display.
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta ships the first public preview of Union, a new theming system that can be enabled globally as the Application Style for Qt and QML apps.
Rocky Linux 9.8 ships with post-quantum crypto via GnuTLS 3.8.10 and ML-KEM, jumps to OpenSSH 9.9, and adds a new Clevis pin for remote-attested LUKS unlock.
Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.1 adds native Ceph cluster monitoring, automated bare-metal installs via answer files, and the first cross-remote guest and snapshot management.
Acer's 14 inch convertible pairs Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Plus or X2 Elite with a garaged Wacom stylus, WiFi 7, and a promise of zero performance throttling on battery.
Secluso pairs a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with MLS end-to-end encryption, post-quantum crypto, and a Rust-rewritten stack for a fully open-source home camera.