Asus NUC 16 Debuts With Wildcat Lake Chips and Dual 2.5GbE Ports
Asus's new Wildcat Lake mini PC packs dual 2.5GbE, Thunderbolt 4, and WiFi 7 into the same chassis as the Panther Lake NUC 16 Pro, with a bare-board variant available too.
Minisforum's Computex-debuted N4 pairs Intel's hybrid-core Wildcat Lake with 10GbE, USB4, and a 17 TOPS NPU in a four-bay metal chassis aimed squarely at homelab builders.
Incus 7.1 lands with explicit VM CPU topology, custom TPM platform certificates, server-side S3 CopyObject, and a critical security fix for the LXD fork.
Microsoft's Surface RTX Spark Dev Box packs NVIDIA's 20-core Arm chip and 128GB of unified memory into a 3D-printed aluminum mini PC built for running 120B+ parameter models locally.
OpenWrt 24.10.7 closes the Dirty Frag IPsec kernel privilege escalation, six dnsmasq CVEs, and TLS library flaws, with Airoha EN7581 platform support filled out.
Dell's 2026 XPS 14 is now available preinstalled with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, configurable up to a Core Ultra X9 388H with Arc B390 Xe3 graphics.
ASRock Rack's 2UXGM-VERA2 puts NVIDIA's ARM-based Vera CPU with custom Olympus cores into a 2U chassis alongside liquid-cooled HGX Rubin NVL8 systems.
Minisforum's N5 Max NAS pairs AMD's Strix Halo APU with OpenClaw, an open source local AI agent, putting 126 TOPS and up to 200 TB of storage into a Linux-friendly box.
Phone-sized E Ink reader runs Android 15 with 6GB of RAM, a 300 PPI display, and a MediaTek SoC, leaving the door open for KOReader and sideloaded apps.
ASUS's Ascent QN10 packs Qualcomm's 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite into a 130mm-square chassis, making it the first mini PC to ship with the new Arm desktop silicon.
Asus stuffs a 175-watt mobile RTX 5090 with 24GB GDDR7 and a Core Ultra 9 290HX into a transparent, console-sized mini PC for the ROG brand's 20th anniversary.