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We have a new board option in the Raspberry PI family, this new Raspberry Pi 400 is a new design option that offer the user the experience to have integrated in the same keyboard a new raspberry pi 400.
Check more technical details in:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-400/?resellerType=homeAfter around a year of the last Raspberry pi P4 release, this is a good new for ones and a huge deception for others.
The board is more powerful than the old PI4, and the case is itself a user keyboard in the same "case", as the new board is not squares, all the connectors included the GPIO are available in the same side, that makes this new system more accessible than other boards.
From a point of view of headless System, what we can say, the keyboard it’s totally useless if we follow the headless installation to put the raspberry as a server, as a IOT System, as a spy cam or similar; maybe we will see new plastic cases without he keyboard for a different use, but, it seams that this board don’t have the option to plug a camera directly to the board, you will need to plug it trough USB if you need one.
This new product is more oriented for kids that would like to play with a Linux computer, it can be more accessible that other computers and/or laptop because you only need to plug the micro SD in the raspberry, plug the HDMI to a tv and start using it. I found it quit expensive compared if you acquired for example the P4 board with an external keyboard, I miss for example an display like we can see in old ebooks and the touch pad to avoid the use of the mouse; if this is a product for help kid to learn about computers, programming, etc…
You can check it from Pimoroni web site:
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-400-personal-computer-kit?variant=32280730206291
Why not to invest in a small and cheapest PI4 rather than more different boards ?
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