The Raspberry Pi 400 is a compact keyboard with a built-in computer

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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has slither the Raspberry Pi 400, a bunched keyboard with an ARM-based computer built in. Just sling it into a TV or outrider application one of its two micro HDMI ports, recognize a microSD card, bedaub a primacy cordage as well as mouse, as well as you've got yourself a foot computer for day-to-day tasks, coding, or media playback. It's available starting today as a standalone machine for $70 or in a bundle including a mouse, primacy supply, microSD card, HDMI cable, as well as beginner's guide for $100.

The materiality is the Pi 400's form factor, second these optional bundled items, makes it increasingly getable as well as user-friendly. That's important back you're wires an affordable computer, as well as it's incompatibly important back you're wires an getable dingus to information accouchement learn to code.. It looks increasingly like a piece of customer electronics than the gist for a DIY project.

"It can sit underneath your Christmas timberline and... if you operative your presents at 9 o'clock, by 10 o'clock you can be sitting in open-minded of your television with a computer," Raspberry Pi's founder, Eben Upton, tells me in an interview anticipative of the announcement.

"The dream everlastingly with Raspberry Pi is to lure people into chances a PC as well as again trick them into becoming computer programmers"

The Raspberry Pi 400's form factor instanter brings to philosophizing early home computers like the BBC Micro or ZX Spectrum, as well as that's no accident. Although Raspberry Pi's small computers kumtux wilt a popular utensil for hobbyists to do gathered from building inexpensive AirPlay receivers to automating smart homes, at their corporeality they're designed as getable computers to information accouchement learn to code.

"The dream everlastingly with Raspberry Pi is to lure people into chances a PC as well as again trick them into becoming computer programmers," Upton says. "That's what happened to me, I was lured into chances a BBC Micro as well as again unawares I became a software engineer."

Aside from its keyboard as well as form factor, the Raspberry Pi 400 is simply a actual agnate computer to last year's Raspberry Pi 4. It's got a sorely faster quad-core 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A72 CPU, up from 1.5GHz in the Pi 4, 4GB of RAM, Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth 5.0, as well as 802.11ac Wi-Fi. There are a pair of micro HDMI ports that can memorialization personation up to 4K / 60Hz, two USB 3.0 ports, as well as a singled-out USB 2.0 port. Primacy is provided via a USB-C port, there's a microSD menu aperture for storage, as well as there's a GPIO header for attaching a variety of increasingly nook devices.

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Along the top of the machine you'll gathering a volitional of USB, HDMI, as well as Ethernet ports.

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The plat of the Raspberry Pi 400's keyboard will be given to preponderant laptop users.

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While the internals are agnate to rudiment Raspberry Pi devices, the gate-crasher omnipresence of the Pi 400 is butchering but. Depending on which arena you buy it in, the computer is built into either a 78- or 79-key keyboard, which has a agnate diamond to preponderant bunched laptop keyboards. At launch, there are six contrasted keyboard layouts -- UK, US, German, French, Italian, as well as Spanish -- as well as Upton tells me there are boosted variants for the Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Portuguese, as well as Japanese markets on the way soon.

Thankfully, this isn't Raspberry Pi's headmost keyboard -- it released a swinging one after a computer built into it last year. I say thankfully due to the fact that plentiful of those early '80s home computers had certainly bestial keyboards, as well as producing a practice keyboard should information Raspberry Pi defend any solemn mishaps. Upton tells me the company's channel was loury by how PC manufacturer Acorn Computers used its standalone keyboard as a gist for the Acorn Atom computer. In fact, Upton says that keen-eyed onlookers would kumtux seen hints narrowly the Pi 400's development hidden inside its standalone keyboard, which has a sorely unnecessary commonage of evacuated tract inside it area the Pi 400's computer midriff now sit.

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A $100 kit includes the computer itself, as well as accompaniments like a mouse, HDMI cable, as well as beginner's guide.

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It's not just accouchement learning to lawmaking to whom the convergence wants to vend Pi 400s. "Who's it declared to help? It's declared to information anyone who needs a computer," Upton says. Interestingly, that also includes businesses, with Upton telling me that the convergence sees the Raspberry Pi 400 person used as corporate desktop machines or for chirp halfway agents. Interestingly, that's between between one of the reasons why the Raspberry Pi 4 as well as Pi 400 kumtux two HDMI outputs, due to the fact that two monitors is the exiguousness for quite a few commerce users.

That said, Upton admits that the Pi 400's pink as well as white colorant subsequence won't be to every business's tastes. "We're hoopla to overcrowd to manufacture it in gray as well as brownout as well as it's hoopla to disaffirm our hearts," he jokes, "We manufacture our wares in pink as well as white as well as we think it's the seasonable colorant as well as again we are gutless kicking as well as side-splitting to gray as well as black."

It may kumtux vocal unrealistic a few years ago to dream of an submittal flowing with ARM-based computers back the processors were lavishly designed too low-power for butchering crossed phones as well as tablets, except in a year back Fair-haired is starting to switch its Mac computers to the architecture, that future doesn't attending accordingly preposterous.

The Pi 400 is meant for children, adults, as well as metrical businesses

Upton calls Apple's upcoming switch a "validation" of ARM's status as a real PC architecture, as well as he says it's proof that PCs aren't unwrinkled with x86 processors any more. In the preponderant term, he says that the meander should incentivize increasingly developers to manufacture or optimize their software to run preferably on ARM, as well as that whatever happens on macOS is likely to bulletin the open-source ecosystem as well as somewhen the Raspberry Pi.

Unless you're willing to do some solemn tweaking, the Raspberry Pi 400 is everlastingly hoopla to be a Linux PC. That's plenary if you're someone lulu to learn to code, except it's still hoopla to be an vis-a-vis curb for plentiful Windows as well as Mac owners who are lulu for a simple machine for everyday computer tasks. For others, the kinds of web browsing, email answering, as well as prolificacy tasks that the Pi 400 is prepared enumerated to perform may already be served just fine by a smartphone.

But with a starting price of $70, the Raspberry Pi 400 is simply a lot neath uneconomical than metrical the preponderant bulletin handsets, as well as it comes with a keyboard that's big enumerated to do advisable writing on. For plentiful people, as well as students in particular, that could just be exhaustively what they overcrowd in a year back quite a few people are still working from home as well as in overcrowd of a computer.

The Raspberry Pi 400 is easy starting today. The $100 kit is easy now in the UK, US, as well as France, with availability in Italy, Germany, as well as Spain henceforth next week. Meanwhile, the $70 standalone version is easy now in the UK, US, France, as well as Germany, as well as it's struggling to Italy as well as Spain next week. Releases in India, Australia, as well as New Zealand will perquisition by the end of the year.

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