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

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Bicurico:
For starters I just plan to use the Pi400 with Retropie as an emulation platform. I think it looks and probably feels ideal for this task.

Brumby:
I've moved away from wired keyboard and mouse.

This goes in the complete wrong direction for me.

David Hess:

--- Quote from: Brumby on November 04, 2020, 06:06:33 am ---I've moved away from wired keyboard and mouse.
--- End quote ---

After more than a decade, I have moved back to a wired keyboard and mouse.  Battery life was never a problem but reliability of the wireless connection has always been.

tszaboo:
Maybe at some point they relize that SD cards are unreliable and they shouldn't be the boot drives, and replace it with IDK a HDD or SSD. Maybe they also realize that people use this as a desktop, so they make it compatible with regular cases. Also it would be nice if you can use an old regular power supply for it, instead of their hit and miss 5V 3A but actually 4A proprietary power supply. Maybe they realize that all the ports should be on one side, because having it on all 4 is bad for design, tolerances, everything. Maybe they also realize that cooling actually necessary with their board, because those Qualcom chipsets are becoming more and more power hungry. You know, something that is compatible.
I think at that point they can finally make an ITX motherboard, instead of reinventing all the bad ideas from 20-40 years ago, that were tried and discarded.

james_s:
Could they make it an ITX motherboard and still keep the cost down as low as it is? I doubt it.

Personally I like the form factor, despite the flaws. Sure it's possible to use it as a desktop computer but that's not really what it's made for, it's better suited as an embedded device. Almost all of mine are running headless, tucked into housings not much larger than a deck of cards. A real SSD would be nice, but then again my main RPi server has been running 24/7 for at least 7 years now, I replaced the original SD card with a larger one 4 or 5 years ago and that's still going strong. I don't like the micro USB power jack much at all, so I soldered wires to the board and connected a proper DC barrel jack which I plug into salvaged wall warts that have nice heavy cords. I have a model 2 also, and a couple of 3Bs, they're all reliably handling various embedded tasks. The RPi is little more than a breakout board for the Broadcom SOC. I think just about anything done to improve it would increase the price, and there are other SBCs out there to fill those needs.

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