The Raspberry Pi 400 was successful when it got here out in 2020, harkening again to the times when individuals would stuff an entire laptop below the big keys of an old style keyboard. When you love that type issue however want one thing somewhat extra beefy, the brand new Raspberry Pi 500 is right here with the identical design however upgraded Pi 5 guts.
The Pi 500 is a standalone laptop with all of the connections you want alongside its prime edge. However should you’re additionally searching for an identical monitor, you’re in luck as a result of the corporate simply launched its first home-grown monitor, a spiffy-looking 15.6-inch mannequin. It will probably work as a journey show or a small standard desktop monitor due to its VESA mount, and it’s a fairly darn whole lot at simply $100. It’ll even energy up from a Raspberry Pi alone, as long as you’ve a spare USB-A port to ship somewhat additional juice.
I actually just like the look of the monitor, with its red-on-white coloring, a kickstand that doubles as a carry deal with, and a trendy cutout on the decrease bezel. Usually, I’d be down on its inclusion of a pair of extraordinarily low-power audio system, however contemplating that is meant to be a companion to extraordinarily versatile, inexpensive laptop designs, I suppose it is smart.
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The 1080p panel isn’t precisely the sharpest on the earth, however with an ordinary HDMI port it might work as a fairly good and inexpensive monitor for a small house. Simply bear in mind that it doesn’t include an influence provide, so that you’ll want to provide 15 watts should you’re not powering it immediately out of your Pi or one other laptop. Additionally notice that whereas the monitor is powered by USB-C, it doesn’t really get its video sign through USB-C, so it wants extra cables than your typical moveable monitor.
The upgraded Pi 500 keyboard makes use of the Pi 5 as its base with 8GB of reminiscence and the two.4GHz quad-core Cortex A76 processor. The highest edge has devoted ports for Ethernet, USB-A (three, at varied speeds), USB-C for energy, double Micro HDMI for twin 4K output, and a microSD card slot, along with the uncovered 40-pin GPIO port cherished by modders. The Pi 500 flips the port structure versus the unique design, and in addition ditches that pink backside of the case, which is a little bit of a bummer.
To date, the one place that has the Pi 500 in inventory is CanaKit, which is promoting simply the first {hardware} (with out the ability provide, mouse, and Micro HDMI adapter that’s generally bundled with the Pi 400) for $90. It appears prefer it won’t embody a microSD card (the place the working system lives) both, so plan accordingly.
