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Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC

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Re: Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC

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Post by alphaomegacode »

Truly amazing how the Raspberry Pi team keeps innovating.

As far as I know, they're not a billion dollar company yet they keep innovating by making better Pi's and continuously upgrading the builder/user experience.

Congratulations to Upton and team!

Re: Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC

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Post by newsbinator »

This is really cool. Does it support an Asus Zenscreen USB C portable monitor? I recently started traveling with one as a second screen. Weighs less than a kilo.

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-ZenScreen-MB16AC-Portable-Monito...

Setting it up on my MacBook Pro required the 'DisplayLink Manager' util to be installed, but otherwise it just works and doesn't need a second power source.

I wonder if that would still work with this Raspberry Pi 400.

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Post by petre »

zatertip wrote: post #3

This is such a great idea. Plug it into a tv and you have a PC. Plug in an SSD with movies and you have a media center, no extra assembly required!

Yup, FFW 38 years into the future and the Commodore 64 is reborn, only with a ~22 times lower price.

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Post by rcarmo »

This is an awesome idea, brings me back to my Sinclair days - grab the computer, plug it into the TV, done. Perfect for kids.

Only one concern: I own one of the keyboards (they also have a US layout) and they’re not bad, but the right cursor key fails to register sometimes. So let’s hope they tweaked the build quality a bit in that regard.

Re: Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC

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Post by comboy »

Fantastic. They clearly took into account vast user base not interested in electronics and tinkering and just interested in a cheap PC. SD card with system included which was a hassle for novice users. And they even kept GPIO outside for those like me.

I'm so glad about Raspberry Pi popularity. There are many superior hardware platforms but having one that's really popular massively speeds up prototyping when most modules and sensors have libraries written for it, and you know you are testing them on the same hardware on which they were developed.

Re: Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC

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Post by regularfry »

I'm intrigued by the "faster, cooler" comment. Anyone know what that refers to? It looks like there aren't any vents on the visible surfaces, so I'm guessing there's been a hardware rev to make thermal throttling less of a problem?

If so, that might imply a pi 4 board release some time soon, which would be nice.

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