Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions
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Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions
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Re: Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions
#2"The 400 doesn’t have an audio-out."
That does seem like a miss for an otherwise decent platform. HDMI out support is fine, but since this setup is quite portable, exposing a headphone jack seems obvious. I suppose bluetooth is the expectation now?
Re: Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions
#3So i have Pi-top the Raspberry pi 3 Laptop. It wasn't expensive or anything. Keyboard is fine, touchpad is fine. But when i boot on it GUI and start VScode things works but starting a chromium on top of that brings a warm feeling to you... and it is not a metaphore. In general Pi 3 was a bit too slow. With Pi 4 everything could be "fast enough". I'm waiting for more devices like this. But I prefer the format of a little bit more expensive Pi-top than keyboard i need to plug to monitor.
For this I would elect to buy naked Pi 4 and keyboard I would like and just wire everything together. If you wanna do stuff on it imho Keyboard feeling good is important.
Re: Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions
#4"The 400 doesn’t have an audio-out." That does seem like a miss for an otherwise decent platform. HDMI out support is fine, but since this setup is quite portable, exposing a headphone jack seems obvious. I suppose bluetooth is the expectation now?
I agree. A headphone jack would make so much sense.
Re: Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions
#5"The 400 doesn’t have an audio-out." That does seem like a miss for an otherwise decent platform. HDMI out support is fine, but since this setup is quite portable, exposing a headphone jack seems obvious. I suppose bluetooth is the expectation now?
USB audio dongles are super cheap. You can get 2 of them for about $10.
If I was on the design team for it I could eventually come around to being fine with it.
Re: Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions
#6"The 400 doesn’t have an audio-out." That does seem like a miss for an otherwise decent platform. HDMI out support is fine, but since this setup is quite portable, exposing a headphone jack seems obvious. I suppose bluetooth is the expectation now?
USB audio would also be an option, but I agree, a lack of audio out for headphones or a headset seems like an error of judgement.
Re: Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions
#7"The 400 doesn’t have an audio-out." That does seem like a miss for an otherwise decent platform. HDMI out support is fine, but since this setup is quite portable, exposing a headphone jack seems obvious. I suppose bluetooth is the expectation now?
USB audio dongles are super cheap. You can get 2 of them for about $10. If I was on the design team for it I could eventually come around to being fine with it.
Yes, but it's "yet another" dongle for this machine which is meant to be an easy to use all-in-one friendly to beginners. Them using micro HDMI is already bizarre seeing as there's loads of room for a full size port and most people will need a dongle/adapter here, but not including an audio jack is crazy, seeing as the proper Rpi4 does have one!
Re: Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions
#8"The 400 doesn’t have an audio-out." That does seem like a miss for an otherwise decent platform. HDMI out support is fine, but since this setup is quite portable, exposing a headphone jack seems obvious. I suppose bluetooth is the expectation now?
Considering most phones already ditch the audio jack, I'd say it's not so surprising?
I'm a bit more disappointed there is no usable usb c - and we could use these usb c-3.5 adaptors almost everyone has now.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
USB audio dongles are super cheap. You can get 2 of them for about $10. If I was on the design team for it I could eventually come around to being fine with it.
Yes, but it's "yet another" dongle for this machine which is meant to be an easy to use all-in-one friendly to beginners. Them using micro HDMI is already bizarre seeing as there's loads of room for a full size port and most people will need a dongle/adapter here, but not including an audio jack is crazy, seeing as the proper Rpi4 does have one!
You would also want a dongle that has a driver already bundled with the OS. Not sure if that's typical or not. Probably unlikely that the dongle itself comes with a suitable ARM/Linux driver.
Re: Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions
#10"The 400 doesn’t have an audio-out." That does seem like a miss for an otherwise decent platform. HDMI out support is fine, but since this setup is quite portable, exposing a headphone jack seems obvious. I suppose bluetooth is the expectation now?
That's a bummer. I was planning to connect CRT TV to it through composite, that was passed through headphone jack.