The OrangePi Neo gaming console, jointly developed by Orange Pi and the Manjaro distribution developer community, is scheduled to go on sale in the first quarter of 2025. LinuxThe device features a 7-inch display (1920 x 1200, 120Hz), an AMD Ryzen 7 7840U or 8840U CPU, 16GB or 32GB of RAM, 512GB to 2TB of NVMe SSD storage, two USB 4.0 ports, a 3.5mm audio port, a TF card slot, a touchpad, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, 2-watt speakers, a Hall Rocker joystick, and RGB backlighting. Dimensions: 259mm x 107mm x 19.9mm.
The device will run an atomically updated version of the Manjaro Gaming Edition distribution as its operating system. Composite rendering is used for rendering. server Gamescope is based on the Wayland protocol. The interface for device control and game launching is built on the OpenGamepadUI shell, which runs on top of the Godot game engine. Interaction with input devices is based on the InputPlumber background process.
The Steam Client is included in the package for running games from the Steam catalog. Compatibility with games compiled for Windows This is achieved using the Proton package. In addition to a specialized shell, the full-fledged KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment will be available.
The console with an AMD Ryzen 7 7840U processor, 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of SDD will cost $499, while the version with an AMD Ryzen 7 8840U processor will cost $100 more.
Source: opennet.ru
