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Raspberry Pi 400: Its Designer Reveals More About the Faster Pi 4 in the $70 PC's Keyboard

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday November 10 2020, @04:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the slice-of-pi dept.

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Raspberry Pi 400: Its designer reveals more about the faster Pi 4 in the $70 PC's keyboard:

Raspberry Pi's designers have revealed more about the overhauled design of the Raspberry Pi 4 inside its new Raspberry Pi 400 keyboard computer.

The new $70 Raspberry Pi 400, announced on Monday, offers fans of the Raspberry Pi single-board computer a polished, modern take on far less powerful classics from the 1980s like the BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum and Commodore Amiga.

[...] Raspberry Pi senior principal engineer Simon Martin has posted a blog answering the questions some fans have raised about whether the Pi 400 is a left-handed device.

[...] Martin explains that the Pi 400 team didn't opt for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module – a compact variant of the board without ports for industrial applications – because it was more efficient to make a custom PCB at the scale at which the Pi 400 is being made at Sony's manufacturing facility in Wales.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday November 11 2020, @12:47AM (2 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Wednesday November 11 2020, @12:47AM (#1075962) Homepage
    Yes, separate as in separate. My screen's over there, I'm over here. Why would I want the two to be mechanically connected? That's an antifeature.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @03:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @03:39PM (#1076172)

    Because you're clearly not doing any serious work if you're not in relatively close proximity to the monitor. People doing serious work want to be closer to the monitor so that they can make better use of the pixels. Even people doing less than serious work benefit from being closer to the monitor, it's one of the key reasons that computer monitors historically had better dot pitch than regular TVs did.

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday November 11 2020, @05:00PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday November 11 2020, @05:00PM (#1076192) Journal

    My wireless keyboard is about 2 inches away from my TV/display which is connected to a Pi 4, and it stays there 99% of the time.

    Pi 400 is interesting, except for the 3.5mm removal. But the target market (education) probably doesn't need that and is fine with the keyboard being connected to the display.

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