Lilbits: MSI Cubi mini PC with Intel Panther Lake, LineageOS 23.2, and an open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator

During CES, MSI unveiled the Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG mini PC with support for up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 Panther Lake processor. Now the company has started teasing an impending launch, promising to deliver a little computer with support for up to four displays, dual 2.5 Gigabit network ports, and AI capabilities, among other things.

One thing to know is that these little computers will not feature […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@geerlingguy/116024284233213022

Excellent hands-on review of the #argon40 #oneup #pi #cm5 laptop. Excellent but also disappointing for me; I had been keen to get one but it seems there are ports not yet working properly, no hardware sleep mode, a total lack of documentation and support, and of course there's the RAM price crisis. @geerlingguy 's conclusion that it's not a good enough deal right now seems pragmatic and fair, and I'm going to stick with used Thinkpads.

Why is it that every time I try to do something interesting with computers, I end up frustrated and finding things not working as advertised?

Bought a #RaspberryPi 5, put it in an #Argon40 ONE V3 case, and after around 5 attempts managed to get the thing to correctly power up.

But I bought this case because of the #Argon remote control, and the case has an in-built receiver. But does it work? Does it hell.

Not in #LibreELEC and not in #Raspbian, even though I'm using the latest repos for everything and reading forum posts to try and reproduce what people say works but doesn't.

Another week wasted, on and off, so I'm still stuck watching stuff on the main desktop PC and not on my 55" TV in the lounge, because with a remote control, #Kodi is painful to use.

#fedup

My excitement is palpable today. I woke to find an email confirming that DPD will be delivering a new laptop this afternoon.

New laptops are not a novel thing, for many they are commodity items.
What makes this one special and exciting for me is that it is one I "ordered" back in September '25 when I backed #Argon40, along with 978 others, to manufacture and deliver their Argon ONE UP on Kickstarter.

The laptop is built around a RaspberryPi Compute Module 5, 8GB RAM and a 256GB NVME drive.

#RaspberryPi #ARM #Kickstarter

This has to be the best case of 2025. Check out #argon40 #ArgonONEv5 with me! If you have a board from #RaspberryPi they definitely work checking out. This one is for #RaspberryPi5

https://youtube.com/shorts/50ukqGeQGxY