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

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Brumby:

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

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I've only had that issue with original placement of the receiver.  I didn't have to make any special concessions - just try each of the 3 locations I already had available (front of case, back of case, USB hub).  After that, no problems.

tszaboo:

--- Quote from: james_s on November 05, 2020, 01:13:32 am ---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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There are mATX boards for sale, current generation, for 40 EUR. With a lot more ports, and a lot more going on on the PCB, bigger power management, etc. Once you order a lot of PCBs, the board price plummets.

Bicurico:
This might be an interesting read for all those that are "complaining" about Micro HDMI, left sided USB, etc.:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/designing-raspberry-pi-400/

I think if you would ask 10 persons how they would have made a "better" Raspberry Pi, you would get ten different designs...

The success of the Raspberry Pi proves that they have made pretty good decisions so far.

Regards,
Vitor

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