Valve has filed two trademarks, one for consoles, accessories, and controllers, and one for “computer hardware” generally. The Valve Index VR headset trademarked the same, so don’t take “console” literally! With Steam Deck, it filed for handhelds, too. I bet the “Frame” isn’t Deckard, Roy or Fremont, but the whole enchilada:
Acer already snuck its take on Nvidia’s Digits / Spark into Computex, but now the Veriton GN100 AI Mini Workstation is official: $3,999 for its Nvidia GB10 Grace Blackwell chip with 128GB memory, 4TB storage, Wi-Fi 7, HDMI 2.1b, Ethernet and four USB-C ports. Collect the whole set, I guess:
Remember Asus’ eye-catching silver screen with a 26.5-inch 1440p OLED panel that starts at a blazingly fast 540Hz and can also do 720Hz at 720p? Acer now has one of those, too: it’s called the Predator X27U F8 and likely uses the same LG Display tech. $1,300, coming Q1 2026.
Remember when I upgraded a laptop’s entire GPU in just three minutes and filmed it for you? It wasn’t the only first I filmed that day! Here’s my Today I’m Toying With video hands-on with Framework’s industry-first standards-based 240W USB-C PD charging system. Look ma: no barrel jacks!
Few handheld gaming PCs have OLED screens — fewer of those have variable refresh rates. The Legion Go 2 has those and sustained brightness of 500 nits, peaking at 1000 nits, in a native landscape orientation to avoid panel refresh weirdness! According to Evan Blass’s huge new dump of leaked images, anyhow.
Antonio didn’t have a problem with noise in our review: “The fan often goes whisper-quiet [...] you’ll hear it spin up for some short stretches, but it quickly quiets back down until you’re doing something more intensive.”
But Noctua says these two free files can reduce sound another five decibels.
