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Raspberry Pi 500+ boasts a high-quality mechanical keyboard with removable keycaps and individually addressable RGB LEDs, an internal M.2 socket pre-fitted with a 256GB Raspberry Pi SSD, and 16GB of RAM.
'member when Raspberry Pis were like twenty-five bucks?
I just said the same thing, got a couple 1ghz quad core I use with an old version of RetroPi, think they were $35 when I got em
The good thing about the raspberry pi is that it costed less than 30€. At 200 it's no longer a tinkerer toy.
yeah, like I always liked the Pi as essentially an arduino and easier way to spit stuff out to a screen, and native wifi. As they evolved some of the micro-pc stuff was cool for hosting a few services, but why do they keep pushing into the mini-pc sphere.
I guess I get that this is an expansion of the Pi-5, and that does kind of make sense for those who want it, but it seems like they're going to lose the plot in one of these generations soon.
This is a cool piece of tech but I can't really think of real world use cases besides looking cool and having that weird but cool computer-in-keyboard retro vibe. I had the same idea with the 400.
Maybe the best use would be some sort of super portable thin client, but looks very capable to be just that. Having a battery would have made sense too, for portability. Any out of the box way of connecting it to a smartphone screen would be great too, even if it's just tty.
Maybe I'm just being obtuse and just want a laptop, but the whole thing seems impractical to me.
I think when they're just a bit faster (like twice as fast) they'll be viable as a desktop computer for most people which is pretty cool.
If I had one I'd probably dedicate it to emulation.
But I have a MiSTer for that, so...
I can do emulation with a regular keyboardless rpi connected to my tv. You want portable emulation? I do that with a gpi case, and runs on batteries! This weird desktop approach is what doesn't make any sense to me.
I could stream a beefier PC to it with sunshine/moonlight maybe and use it as some kind of really light desktop, but still, why would I do that and not just have the beefier PC in said desk.
Define "ultimate"
Pis are neat, but they're not particularly great at anything, and they in fact suck at most things. They're toys except maybe for some very specific use cases (for which anyone reading this doesn't fall under).
You can find something more powerful and useful for $200. Just buy a used laptop, and you even get a battery, screen, and touchpad (neither of which come with the pi)
...why is there no normal HDMI port?
I don't see a good view of the row of ports, but on my 400 there's quite a bit there between the HAT, USBs, micro SD, etc. My guess is that full HDMI would cause some space issues
there are tons of images of the thing on their store page, including of the pcb, which is entirely custom.
Just looked it up, and I think my point is correct. You could get about one regular HDMI port in the space they used for the two micro ones. And that row of stuff seems kinda full
they have full control of the size of the pcb. they could have made it a cm wider.
Lots of design considerations to be made there. When they can easily include a micro-full HDMI cord and adapters and stuff are easy to come by, it's not a horrible compromise IMO.
no, it is, because micro-hdmi is a real brittle connector. you need to be careful when moving a pi4 and up because the cables are heavy and stiff and the connectors are tiiiny.