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Raspberry Pi400 announced today - already practically sold out...

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ataradov:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on November 02, 2020, 11:08:15 pm ---Ooh. The enter key looks like an abomination.

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This is a European version. There are like 7 different keyboard layouts, but sellers don't bother to specify what they are selling exactly.

David Hess:
Chiclet keyboard?  No thanks.


--- Quote from: pickle9000 on November 03, 2020, 12:02:22 am ---That really reminds me of a VIC 20.
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It is more like a Coco (Tandy TRS-80).  The VIC-20 had a better keyboard.

pickle9000:

--- Quote from: David Hess on November 03, 2020, 01:19:59 am ---Chiclet keyboard?  No thanks.


--- Quote from: pickle9000 on November 03, 2020, 12:02:22 am ---That really reminds me of a VIC 20.
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It is more like a Coco (Tandy TRS-80).  The VIC-20 had a better keyboard.

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The Coco was really crap, and I sold them back in the day. Ah yes the 7% commission when sales was a thing.

NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: pickle9000 on November 03, 2020, 12:16:23 am ---Micro hdmi should be banned

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There's plenty of room for a regular HDMI so they should have put one there. Maybe a regular HDMI and a micro HDMI so it will be compatible with both. Or a regular HDMI and a DisplayPort.

james_s:

--- Quote from: ataradov on November 02, 2020, 09:35:39 pm ---They call it $70, but literally everyone was selling it at $100.

They should really  cut that crap out with lower than actual prices in the headlines.

The thing itself is interesting. More so at $70 than $100, but even at $100, it is fine, but I'll wait the first wave.

To be fair, it looks like at least some (not all of them, for sure) places were actually selling a kit with a book and some other hardware. But still, if you advertise something  for $70, have a way for people to get it for $70.

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I completely agree there. I'm a big fan of the Raspberry Pi series and have used quite a few of them, but the price claims drive me nuts. The Pi Zero was advertised as a $5 computer but even years after it came out I have never seen anywhere you can actually buy one for $5, mine have all cost at least $10 once I paid shipping, and it was always limit of one per order so it's not like I could buy 10 of them shipped in the same package. The original RPis were advertised as $35 computers IIRC but everyone was charging more than that.

I don't really see the appeal of this integrated keyboard thing though. It looks like a cheap crappy netbook keyboard, I've already got plenty of good quality keyboards, I could build a RPi into one if I really wanted to, but if I was going to use on in a desktop type environment with a keyboard I'd rather just stick the RPi to the back of the monitor or somewhere else out of the way than build it into the keyboard itself. As it is none of the RPis I have in service have keyboards attached, they're all either headless machines accessed over LAN or in one case my media player which has an IR remote.

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