I sort of noticed there has been a boom for handheld PC after Steamdeck launched. Within this year, we go “big” three such as Rog Ally, LegionGo and SteamDeck.

My wandering mind is like, why not, why didn’t this happen say, 5 years ago. Is it because handheld CPU are now fast and power efficient to run full desktop operating system?

We had laptops for the longest time, say Era of “Intel Core 2 Duo”, were there handheld PC at that time? If we had laptop, could there be smaller form gaming device running linux/windoes?