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

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james_s:

--- Quote from: Bicurico on November 03, 2020, 10:40:17 am ---I don't really understand the complaints. Yes with the Pi Zero it was impossible to get one for £5, but then, at this price the demand was just to big. I mean, at £5 I would right now buy like 10 just to have them around and ready for whatever application I might come across. Multiply this to all potential customers in the world and there would never be enough stock... And the foundation thus had to limit each purchase to one unit. Plus they don't make profit out of shipping. I agree, the situation sucks, but it could hardly be improved, I guess, especially when the product costs the same or less than the shipping itself.

Vitor

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So don't call it a "$5" computer then? Call it a $7 computer? Seems pretty easy to improve to me. Price it such that demand is roughly equal to the supply, and allow people to purchase as many as they want at the advertised price, just like virtually every other product on the market.

edy:
Nifty idea, I still have my original RasPi sitting around waiting for me to finish my retro-Arcade machine.  One of these days I have to get back to it...  PiMAME here I come...  :-DD

The RasPi 400 looks neat, my only comment is what happens when the keyboard gets buggered up (which my kids will probably do sooner rather than later)? I assume you can plug in an external keyboard into the USB ports? I prefer a little box containing the RasPi 4 (which I assume powers the heart of the RasPi 400) and then tucking it away behind something. Then I can use whatever keyboard I want.

Now... If they could make a laptop form-factor in that price range... oh boy!!! Something to compete with those low-end Chromebooks (that I see sub $100). Once upon a time the Motorola Lapdock was a popular mod but now they are impossible to get. I'm sure there are laptop "kits" that accept a RasPi but until these are mass-produced by RasPi organization themselves it will be too costly.

ataradov:
I would love to have this in a laptop form factor. With exposed Ethernet and GPIO connector. That would be a killer device even at $250.

Attempts to make a general purpose desktop of RPi would fail, it is just not powerful enough.

tom66:
The Pi Zero is almost certainly a loss leader, that's why the stock is limited. 

Kjelt:

--- Quote from: ataradov on November 03, 2020, 09:07:34 pm ---I would love to have this in a laptop form factor. With exposed Ethernet and GPIO connector. That would be a killer device even at $250.

Attempts to make a general purpose desktop of RPi would fail, it is just not powerful enough.

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Why not disassemble a 2nd hand laptop and build it yourself ?

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