The Asus ROG Ally X!

Intel Battlemage, briefly!

Taipeis annual Computex event is always a big, circled, triple-underlined mark in the PC gaming hardware calendar.

Dr. Lisa Su, AMD CEO, showing a new chip onstage at Computex 2024.

Run art-stealing generation tools faster!

Granted, AI is a broad field, and not everything about it is necessarily gross or creatively bankrupting.

That aside, I dont feel nearly as icky about this as with a lot of other AI endeavours.

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The reliability of dynamically-generated answers remains suspect, though see Googles newly-launched AI helper suggestingwe all eat more rocks.

But at what cost?

Or a 1TB Steam Deck OLED for 569 / $649.

The Asus ROG Ally X, on the show floor at Computex 2024.

Eight cores and only 200MHz behind the flagship chip, while eating up just 65W?

Yes, new Ryzen 5000 chips, nearlyfour years onfrom the series first.

Which is fair enough.

An infographic showing various Intel Lunar Lake specs, including its Xe2 GPU.

Again, no pricing as of yet, but both 5000 chips will be out soon.

It also packs inHall Effectjoysticks, dual-stage triggers buttons, and an AMD Ryzen 7 8840U APU.

The MSI Claw 8 AI+ is a record-time replacement for the troubled original

Remember theMSI Claw?

A render of an AMD Ryzen 9000 series CPU against a dark background.

Availability details remain TBC for now, so well see.

The Zotac Zone handheld gaming PC on display at Computex 2024.

The Claw 8 AI+ on display at Computex 2024.