Raspberry Pi 400

New computer from the Raspberry Pi foundation. RasPi 4 in a keyboard case. New motherboard, also new keyboard connector, so it might not work for RISC OS out of the box.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nopc7mJUDkM

Of course this comes out ~a week after I finally bought a Pi 4…

it might not work for RISC OS out of the box.

I hope to find out in a day or two: I’ve just ordered one.

The other relevant question is… Emma Chizzit?

Ah. Just got the email.

£94. Gotta wait for that lottery win, I think.

$70 if you don’t want the kit ie. no PSU, mouse, sdcard, hdmi cable and book

£94 for the “complete kit”, £67 for just the keyboard part.

Difference being PSU, mouse, HDMI cable, 16gb SD card and beginners guide.

That’s still lottery win territory for an impecunious pensioner, sadly. But considering it’s got a 4GB Pi4 in it, effectively, not a bad price at all. Massive heatsink in the keyboard a very good idea. Tempting.

Interesting to see that it is clocked at 1.8 GHz.

And it runs cool due to a heatsink : https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/raspberry-pi-400-review-faster-cpu-new-layout-better-thermals

Not convinced. It just moves all the wires from a nice fan cooled Ras Pi 4 (fastened, out of site, to back of monitor) to the keyboard.

A keyboard with
– 5v power
– SD card
– HDMI cable
– Network cable
– mouse cable
– USB storage

I look forward to somebody posting how hot it gets with RISC OS which I think runs hotter than Raspberry Pi OS.

> it might not work for RISC OS out of the box

This seems to have different Ethernet chip

Same ethernet phy as the Pi4B

Well, it’s basically a 2020 Speccy, isn’t it?

Add a 40 pin ribbon cable if you want to add a HAT

HAT??? We need a new acronym for Hardware dangling on the end of a 40 Pin GPIO Male to Female Ribbon Cable – 150mm

…and this is how “the age of the A3010/A3020” came back! :D

I already like it! Sorry :D

@ Rick

Well, it’s basically a 2020 Speccy, isn’t it?

Shame on you mate, Speccy really???? it’s an A3010!!! :D

Joking, but yes that’s what a lot of kids may really enjoy. Now we need to get back at making demos for the 400, games and trackers! Oh and obviously Copiers too ]:D

HAT??? We need a new acronym for Hardware dangling on the end of a 40 Pin GPIO Male to Female Ribbon Cable – 150mm

Well, if you take that with Rick’s comment

it’s basically a 2020 Speccy, isn’t it?

You could travel the wobbly RAM pack route.

A keyboard with
– 5v power
– SD card
– HDMI cable
– Network cable
– mouse cable
– USB storage

You missed a mention of the Wireless, so you don’t need to use the network cable.
(Unless of course your OS doesn’t have a wireless stack)

Buy it minus the “kit” (PSU, mouse and cables) and plug in your own PSU and a wireless mouse¹, HDMI cable to a display (or two if your OS supports it).

At the end of the day it’s a ready built, “plug and play” solution for schools which will of course sell many, many more units to retro-gamers and techno-geeks.
Anybody feel like they belong in either of those groups?

¹ If it’s a keyboard/mouse combo then the Pi400 can sit with the display/TV.

Not sure I do belong in either of those groups. Maybe just about in the techno-geek group, but only just. If it runs RISCOS having it built into a keyboard would reduce clutter a bit, and if it runs a lot cooler with that heat sink that’s an attraction too. But £67 is a non-trivial sum, and my Pi3b is currently meeting all my RISCOS needs.

…. then the Pi400 can sit with the display/TV.

Why buy a Pi400 to do what my Pi4 already does. (sits with the display)

Why buy a Pi400 to do what my Pi4 already does.

You need to shorten your question (as above) and then it becomes applicable to a lot of people.
Take out the 4 from Pi4 and it seems to apply to Clive.

For people who don’t have a recent Pi and thus get a faster machine with more memory then the case is fairly obvious. For RO users, I’ve no doubt there will be a delay before the system functions completely.

In the video above they show versions in different colour schemes for Spectrum, Amstrad, BBC Micro and Amiga I think. Are they real and will they become available or was this just a mock?

Yeah, I wonder if that Holtek thingy will cause any problems for Risc OS =>

“Besides the Broadcom BCM2711C0 processor, it comes with many of the same components such as the VL805 PCIe to USB controller, BCM54213PE Gigabit Ethernet transceiver, MxL7704 PMIC, and the same Cypress WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 wireless module. The only new main chips that I could find is a Holtek HT45R0072 8-bit MCU with a USB interface to handle the keyboard.”

The holtek is just a USB keyboard. So it shouldn’t cause an issue. You might need to look for the shutdown keycode and deal with that

Are they real and will they become available or was this just a mock?

CGI mockup – he did mention that.

colour schemes for Spectrum, Amstrad, BBC Micro and Amiga I think

He’s a Commodore fan – at least one would have to match a C64