Raspberry Pi 400 Packs a Computer in a Sleek Keyboard at Just $70
Nov. 2, 2020Raspberry Pi Foundation has announcedRaspberry Pi 400, the company’s all-new compact personal computer built right into a sleek keyboard. The product is inspired by the classic PCs of the 1980s such as BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, and Commodore Amiga.
Raspberry Pi 400integrates the 4GB variant of the popularRaspberry Pi 4that backs a lot ofDIY projects. That translates to the presence of a 1.8GHz quad-core Broadcom BCM2711 Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC and 4GB of LPDDR4-3200 RAM. However, it would’ve been nice to see the recently-launched8GB RAM variant.
In terms of connectivity, the Raspberry Pi 400 comes with dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0 with support for BLE. The ports on the Raspberry Pi 400 include 2 USB 3.0 ports and a single USB 2.0 port, a Gigabit Ethernet port, a horizontal 40-pin GPIO header, 2 micro HDMI ports that support up to 4K at 60 frames per second, a USB-C power port, and a microSD card slot.
You can either purchase just the Raspberry Pi 400 unit or the complete kit that ships with the official USB mouse, USB-C power supply, an SD card with pre-installed Raspberry Pi OS. a micro HDMI to HDMI cable, and the official Raspberry Pi beginner’s guide. There are English (UK and US), French, Italian, German, and Spanish keyboard layouts to choose from.
Raspberry Pi 400 is priced at $70and the kit will cost you $100. Here in India, the Raspberry Pi 400 unit retails at Rs. 6,585 and the kit costs Rs. 8,989 from Robu, one of the official Raspberry Pi resellers.
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Subin writes about consumer tech, software, and security. He secretly misses the headphone jack while pretending he’s better off with the wireless freedom.
