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For 200€, you can get yourself an old Thinkpad, flash it with some coreboot variation, install a GNU/Linux distribution and in process you will learn more things and it is not an RGB keyboard; it is really an "all-in-one PC".
$200 and still micro HDMI? No, thanks. Who is this product for? I've abandoned RPi after the rise of sub $200-PCs on Amazon, which usually come with power supply, on/off buttons, dual full size HDMIs, SSDs etc etc.
Nit: It's the Pi 500+ (the + was eaten up by HN's automated title sensationalism-removal, I guess) And I've posted benchmark data to my sbc-reviews repo here: https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/81 Performance-wise it's pretty much the same as the Pi 5 16GB (and can be slightly faster than the regular Pi 500 depending on the task, if it benefits from faster storage or more RAM...) Since this is the firs…
I really want to hope the name is a nod to the Amiga 500+ (which had twice the RAM of the A500 ..)
Nit: It's the Pi 500+ (the + was eaten up by HN's automated title sensationalism-removal, I guess) And I've posted benchmark data to my sbc-reviews repo here: https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/81 Performance-wise it's pretty much the same as the Pi 5 16GB (and can be slightly faster than the regular Pi 500 depending on the task, if it benefits from faster storage or more RAM...) Since this is the firs…
> Nit: It's the Pi 500+ I really want to hope the name is a nod to the Amiga 500+ (which had twice the RAM of the A500 ..)
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-500-and-raspbe...
> Our experiences with that programme informed the development of Raspberry Pi 400, our all-in-one PC, whose form factor (and name) harks back to the great 8-bit and 16-bit computers – the BBC Micro, Sinclair Spectrum, and Commodore Amiga – of the 1980s and 1990s.
(emphasis mine)
So the 400 name is explicitly inspired by such systems, their next one is called the 500, and the upgrade to that is called the 500+. I'd say it's a pretty safe bet that's exactly the inspiration.
For 200€, you can get yourself an old Thinkpad, flash it with some coreboot variation, install a GNU/Linux distribution and in process you will learn more things and it is not an RGB keyboard; it is really an "all-in-one PC".
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370021
Other duplicates:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45375782
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372608
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372319
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370260
And yes, the plus sign was omitted in all of them. (-:
Holy smokes, they actually fixed my personal pet peeve of this entire product line: it has an internal M.2 slot. The performance of pretty much any SD card for a desktop workload is poor to say the least, and letting a USB boot device dangle out kind of defeats the purpose of the form factor. But this new model has actual fast internal storage! P.S. HN mods, consider fixing the submission name. It’s 500+, not 500, an…
> Holy smokes, they actually fixed my personal pet peeve of this entire product line: it has an internal M.2 slot. What's odd is that the original 500 already had an unpopulated M.2 slot, so they considered it a year ago but backed out for whatever reason.
Even the connection to the new keyboard was already present on the 500 even though it used another connector than the 500+
Nice Tenacious D quote
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, where can I get a new one at comparable Pi prices?
If you're buying Raspberry Pi's, either the form factor or power requirements really worked for you, such as if you're in robotics, IoT sensors, or hardware-adjacent stuff, or you knew you were spending a little bit extra for the hobby space. That includes all the people setting up home labs for their own learning. An M1 is about $250 refurbished under Amazon's protection program. If you intend to use this as a hybri…