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Okay, so there’s this thing happening at Zotac’s Computex 2025 booth. It’s handheld. It’s beautiful — like a sleek digital marvel you didn’t think you’d need. And it’s got a 7-inch AMOLED screen paired with AMD’s whizbang Ryzen AI HX 370 APU from the Strix Point crew. But wait! Not the usual Windows or SteamOS. Nope, they went with Manjaro Linux. Zone 2 is what they’re calling it now, but heck if I know if that’s final — prices and dates are still up in the air.
Remember Zone 1? Yeah, Zotac’s first stab at this came out last fall, packing the Ryzen 7 8840U. Since then, I guess you could say they’ve been, um, not racing. Though they showed off the next big thing at CES in January. Fast forward a few months, and here we are. Anyway — Zone 2 (or whatever it’ll be named) should drop later this year. Probably.
The guts of this gadget? You got an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU. It has 12 cores (I know, right? Techy stuff!) and some Radeon 890M magic. There’s also this neat 50 TOPS NPU thingy in there. Not my area of expertise, but there you go. Instead of the conservative Ryzen Z2, Zotac’s swinging for the fences. Oh, and 24GB or 32GB of fancy RAM, plus a generous 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD that you can swap out if you like tinkering.
Let’s pause — the 7-inch screen? It’s not just any screen. It does 1080p, has a snappy 120Hz refresh rate, and can dazzle with 800 nits brightness. Kinda like the Nintendo Switch with kickstand. Joysticks, touchpads, triggers, plus some kind of spinning thing under the joysticks. If you care about knobs and switches, that’s cool, I guess.
Zotac’s packing this bad boy with a locked version of Manjaro Linux and KDE Plasma 6, copying SteamOS. Got some hiccups with online games due to anti-cheat stuff, like with the Steam Deck. Most games? They should be fine. Oh, and if you’re a rebel, swap the OS to Windows or something else!
Battery life seems samey as Zone 1 with a 48.5Wh deal. Ports? Loads. MicroSD, headphone jack, USB4. If you’re wireless-friendly, there’s WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2. At the back, a couple extra buttons, toggles, and funky mesh design for heat. Stay tuned because Zotac will spill more beans — when they get around to it.
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