You can get a far better used computer for that money.
It's a toy.
Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Schools don't want to be debugging microSD and USB issues.
Except these problems don't occur for most people, as evidenced by the fact that the current system works fine. Complaints like yours are relatively rare.
I've had all RPi versions except RPi4, running at least 1 of them 24/7 since the first one was released, and by the first year I had a cron that dd'd the card every night, and I found myself dding the backup image at least 2-3 times per year.
RPi3+ has had no problem so far, and I'm not upgrading to RPi4 out of fear of it becoming an unstable mess again.
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#113If there was a way to attach a battery to this, and possibly an external speaker, this would be a pretty cool setup for a notetaker for the blind.
We had talking and braille notetakers (basically our equivalent of PDAs), years before the rest of the world heard about such devices. They've been falling out of fashion lately, mostly because they're so expensive, compared to cheaper but slightly worse alternatives like laptops. If we could make one based on a Pi 400, though, it would probably be way cheaper than anything else on the market, and way more powerful, considering we can put Linux on it.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except these problems don't occur for most people, as evidenced by the fact that the current system works fine. Complaints like yours are relatively rare.
Rubbish. They do. My daughter's school has a pile of knackered Pi's that the teachers don't have the time and budget to fix. Broken connectors, duff microSDs, bricks. They don't use them now, preferring python on windows.
I'm sure your experiences are legitimate, just like mine for similar usage profiles are. My only conclusion can be that it's not the hardware itself that's the problem, unless we allow for the possibility that it's different batching. Unlikely, but not unthinkable.
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#115So what are the storage medium options for this device? I'm not much of a Pi-guy; some comments mention "eMMC"; can that actually be used? Why and how would it be better than an SD card?
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#116Can we please have a Pi without a crappy storage interface. It's either a microSD card or something dangling off USB. An M2 SATA or NVMe would make this credible but 99% of the problems I've had with the Pi platform is storage related, either being knackered microSD cards, terrible performance or USB power problems.
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#117I can also see no reason why does it have to be this small (I would appreciate a keypad) and why is there still no heatsink.
I personally think this product looks awesome, maybe partly nostalgia.
It does, but it would hardly look worse if it were wider. It would break no canon either - e.g. Amiga had the same form-factor but with a full-size keyboard incl. keypad.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are countless Android phones with eMMC without much problems
Android phones are useles... no ethernet, no gpio, shitty cooling, hard to get an OS installed, hard to debug, and compared to RPI4, too expensive. RPi4 is great... small cheap, basically a full pc in a small box, with low power usage, low heat production, no noise, and yes... with a shitty storage solution.
I think the parent comment was just pointing out that the storage solution should work fine, given how many android devices use it.
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#119As an engineer/founder from India who dreams of access to the Internet for everyone on this planet, these are the efforts that make me smile.
I am in the process of sorting out my financial situation - tough founder luck. But I am happy to order a few of these (and monitors) and rent a small garage to give local kids a free computer lab to learn. (Kolkata, India)
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#120I dreamed of something like this for ages. Now I need to find a nice pocket monitor and a power bank. I am going to feel like a teen again. Respect!