Each spring, leading PC hardware vendors gather in Taiwan for Computex, a massive showcase of everything from svelte new laptops to brighter and faster monitors, cooling, storage, CPUs, and motherboards. If you love PCs and related tech as much as we do, this show is the most important one of the year.This year’s show was dubbed “AI Together," so there was, of course, plenty of focus on that monstrous marketing term and all-consuming tech trend. But because of AI’s continuing hardware demands, which have driven up prices while driving down general availability of things like RAM and storage, we saw a strange mix of products. Some companies were aiming to make things more affordable, while others launched future-looking hardware aimed at new paradigms of personal computing and using new kinds of manufacturing, which definitely won’t come cheap.We even saw AMD re-release a CPU from four years ago, which will likely push more PC builders back to old – but more affordable – DDR4. Combine that with the recent listings for new SATA SSDs, and your next new PC might be decidedly retro.This year’s standout products include handheld gaming PCs that may break AMD’s dominance, the best Windows-based answer to Apple’s MacBook Neo we’ve seen so far, and a motherboard wrapped in 3D-printed metal with 64 power phases and a max current rating that’s not usually seen outside of industrial machinery.Intel Arc G3 ExtremeIntel Arc G3 Extreme