It's actually Raspberry Pi 500+ review. Difference includes mechanical keyboard, LED lighting, 16GB of RAM, and NVMe SSD storage.
Anyway, this finally looks like a nice ARM64 Linux desktop.
mrlonglong•4mo ago
Looks a little like the Acorn Electron back in the 80s, a cut down version of the BBC B micro that didn't sell well. Hopefully they have better luck this time.
sphars•4mo ago
An RGB mechanical keyboard is an interesting but welcome choice. Definitely contributed to the piece increase to $200+ though
BizarroLand•4mo ago
For $200, how does it stack up against the competition? Only benchmarking it against itself seems like it's trying to make it seem better than it might actually be.
rocketvole•4mo ago
It seems like Raspberry Pi has been trying hard to push itself as a PC instead of a tinkering embedded systems board. I'm not sure how I feel about this, since you can get better performing computers for cheaper. That being said, I'm not sure if it even holds up as a reasonably priced hardware learning platform anymore, with esp32, arduino, and others providing a very similar learning curriculum at a fraction of the price.
thw_9a83c•4mo ago
It's actually Raspberry Pi 500+ review. Difference includes mechanical keyboard, LED lighting, 16GB of RAM, and NVMe SSD storage.
Anyway, this finally looks like a nice ARM64 Linux desktop.