Raspberry Pi 400 assessment—the under-$100 desktop PC you didn’t know you wanted

Late Friday afternoon, I acquired an thrilling SMS notification—my assessment pattern of the brand new Raspberry Pi 400 had arrived. I realized of the brand new Pi mannequin final week whereas interviewing Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton and Canonical desktop engineering director Martin Wimpress about Ubuntu 20.10’s newly improved desktop assist for the Pi {hardware} household.

Briefly, the Pi 400 is a barely sooner model of the 4GiB Pi Four which ships preassembled in a small, wedge-shaped chassis with built-in keyboard. The brand new mannequin instantly targets desktop alternative use and may be bought solo for $70 or as a full package (as seen above) for $100.

The brand new kind issue—which has apparently been within the works ever because the introduction of the official Raspberry Pi keyboard—addresses and enthusiastically helps the Pi 4’s rising use case as a alternative or different for the normal desktop PC. Upton advised Ars that the Pi 400 is about 20 % sooner than the Pi 4; it has largely the identical elements below the hood however on a in a different way laid-out board, and its BCM2711 CPU is clocked a contact greater than the BCM2711 within the Pi 4.

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