For the past few years, Chinese retro PC maker 8086YES! has been building and selling odd little computers that pack decades-old processors and other classic components into modern bodies designed for mobile computing. We've seen handhelds and mini laptops with Intel 8088 chips and a couple of other models with 386 SX compatible processors and even FPGAs configured to work like Zilog Z80 chips.

Valve's upcoming Steam Machine is a cross between a mini PC and a game console. And while the nearly cube-shaped device has a pretty basic design, it's also made to be customizable: Valve demonstrated a couple of swappable face plates when the company unveiled the Steam Machine and now third-party companies are starting to tease accessories. Meanwhile an independent developer has…

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Qualcomm's Snapdragon X series processor made a big splash when they first hit the scene last year, because they were the first Arm-based chips for Windows PCs that promised competitive performance with the Intel and AMD processors that have dominated the market for decades. But what about PCs that don't run Windows? Last June German PC maker Schenker and Linux PC vendor Tuxedo Computers showed off a…

Black Friday is officially the day after Thanksgiving, and this year that means that many retailers will be offering deep discounts on November 28, 2025. But a lot of those retailers aren't waiting until then to kick off their sales. So you can already score deals on laptops, tablets, smartphones, eReaders, headphones and earbuds, and many other mobile tech devices & accessories.

The MINISFORUM MS-02 Ultra is a 4.8 liter desktop computer that's bigger than most mini PCs the company sells. But it's smaller than a typical desktop tower PC, while still packing a lot of connectivity and expansion options. First announced in October, the computer packs three PCIe slots (including a PCIe 5.0 x16 slot for a graphics card or other high-speed add-ons), four SODIMM slots with support for up to 256GB of total RAM, up to four M.2 2280 slots for storage, and support for up to 25 Gigabit wired networking.

A few days after a private fight became public between the company bringing Pebble smartwatches back from the dead and the team of independent developers who ensured that the original watches continued to function without becoming zombies, a member of the Rebble team has weighed in with some thoughts that might help put things in perspective. Meanwhile, in other tech news from around the web, Google is bringing Apple Airdrop support to Android...

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The Sidephone is a modern phone with an Android-based operating system and a touchscreen display. But it also looks like a classic dumb phone with a candybar-style layout featuring a small screen above a numeric keypad. But what really makes this phone unusual is that the number pad is a removable module that can be replaced with other input "tiles." Sidephone…

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The AYANEO Pocket Vert is an upcoming Android handheld that looks a bit like a Nintendo Game Boy might have if it were released in 2025 rather than 1989. In other words, it's a vertical device with a screen on top and buttons on the bottom. But that screen features a high-res IPS LCD display panel and glass that sits flush with the device's all-metal body.

Spanish PC company Slimbook has been partnering with the developers of the KDE open source desktop environment to sell KDE Slimbook-branded laptops since 2017. Like every model in the lineup, the new KDE Slimbook VII ships with the KDE Neon GNU/Linux distribution pre-installed. But it's the most powerful model to date thanks to an AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 10-core, 20-thread processor with 12-core Radeon 880M integrated graphics.

At a time when there are so many handheld gaming PCs available for purchase, it's hard to make one that truly stands out from the crowd. But the Abyxlute 3D ONE manages to that by combining a bunch of rare features with one that makes it virtually unique. It's got a bigger screen than most. Its controllers are detachable. And it has an Intel Lunar Lake processor rather than one of the AMD chips that are more typically found in recent gaming handhelds.

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The Pebble line of smartwatches is back. But in some ways it never really went away... because after Fitbit acquired Pebble in 2016 and stopped making Pebble-branded hardware, an independent team of developers got to work creating an open source software ecosystem that allowed existing watches to continue functioning. For the past decade, the Rebble project has maintained an app store and other web services.

Last week news started to make the rounds that Lenovo has published a web page spelling out the pros (and many cons) of PCs running Android. But Lenovo has since removed that website and claimed that it had nothing to do with Google's plans to bring Android to PCs in the future... although it's unclear why Lenovo published that page in the first place.