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PayPalThe Raspberry Pi 500+ has been revealed as the latest upgrade to the all-in-one PC, sporting some slightly fancier hardware than before. It's the same idea as the Raspberry Pi 500, giving you an Arm-based PC inside a little keyboard but this time they've made various improvements to it.
You now get a 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. It comes pre-installed with Raspberry Pi OS (Linux).
The full specifications:
- 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU, with cryptography extensions, 512KB per-core L2 caches and a 2MB shared L3 cache.
- 16GB LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM.
- Internal 256GB Raspberry Pi SSD.
- Support for M.2 NVMe SSDs up to 2280 form factor.
- 84-, 85- or 88-key mechanical keyboard (depending on regional variant).
- Gateron KS-33 Blue low-profile switches.
- Dual-band (2.4GHz and 5.0GHz) IEEE 802.11b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi.
- Bluetooth 5.0, BLE.
- Gigabit Ethernet.
- 2 × USB 3.0 port and 1 × USB 2.0 port.
- Horizontal 40-pin GPIO header.
- 2 × micro HDMI port (supports up to 4Kp60).
- H.265 (4Kp60 decode).
- OpenGL ES 3.0 graphics.
- SD card support: microSD card slot for operating system and data storage.
- Power: 5V DC via USB-C connector.
It's around £172.80 / $200 depending on where you buy it from.
See more in their announcement.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I imagine this offering will be fairly annoying for the people who just wanted a plain pi500 with m.2 slot. That's double the price, with as an extra sprinkling of frustration the obvious fact that the slot could have been included in the first place.
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Fester_Mudd 2 days ago
Now all we need is a hologram display.
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I resisted the urge to buy a RPi500 because of the lack of NVMe slot, and I think I will resist the urge to buy this because of the more than double pricing. But It's quite tempting anyway, these devices look so handy for so many tasks, and the 16 GiB RAM upgrade is also welcome.
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Linux_Rocks 2 days ago
They should have either a driveless option and/or 512GB and 1TB options for this.
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This is just like the old days of Commodore and MSX where the PC was a keyboard with passively cooled PC components built into it, except that this is probably 10,000 times the performance. Pretty cool.
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Wish they'd go back to full sized hdmi
Looks neat, though I prefer the idea of using a pi for little projects.
I use my pi4 as a syncthing server for my batocera saves between devies, and my pi3 I have inside a sanwa joystick (monster joystick)
Looks neat, though I prefer the idea of using a pi for little projects.
I use my pi4 as a syncthing server for my batocera saves between devies, and my pi3 I have inside a sanwa joystick (monster joystick)
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Full-size HDMI would be nice, but still what a device like this really should have is a fully featured USB-C port (powering the Pi while also providing the video signal to a monitor and optionally linking to network / mouse).
Imagine just having to plug this into a modern monitor with just one cable and not needing anything else ... But they missed that chance again and instead added RGB LEDs to every button ... yeah, a few kids might think this is cool, but it doesn't help anyone.
Imagine just having to plug this into a modern monitor with just one cable and not needing anything else ... But they missed that chance again and instead added RGB LEDs to every button ... yeah, a few kids might think this is cool, but it doesn't help anyone.
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BladePupper a day ago
no mention of hotswappable switches kinda sucks, I do like that they're trying to do something with the keyboard and qmk support for it is a plus
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