Lenovo Revives Legion Phone Line With Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and 7,000-Nit Display
Lenovo's Legion Y70 (2026) packs a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, a 7,000-nit AMOLED, an 8,000mAh battery, and remote AAA game streaming from a paired Legion PC.
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.
Waveshare's new kit drops a Raspberry Pi 4B or 5 into a DIN rail enclosure with isolated RS232, dual RS485, CAN Bus, CAN FD, and 7-36V DC input.
MSI's MAG 272UP QD-OLED E16 brings Samsung's 4th Gen Penta Tandem QD-OLED panel to 4K at 165Hz for $600, hitting 1,000 nits peak brightness.
Lenovo's 16-inch ThinkBook ships with Intel Core Ultra Series 2 chips, optional Wi-Fi 7, a 71 Wh battery, and a 120 Hz 100% sRGB display upgrade.
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.
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.