Just in time for the holiday season, Raspberry Pi have launched two new bits of hardware for you to tinker with the Raspberry Pi 500 and an official Raspberry Pi Monitor.
  • astrsk@fedia.io
    13·
    2 days ago

    I’m so annoyed that the 500 price increased so drastically yet doesn’t include PoE or NVMe support components despite having unpopulated pads on the board directly for “flexible future designs”. I’d prefer a $40 increase over the 400 to include these components instead of $20 more for blank spaces and no guarantee of making it work DIY style. Hopefully the 500B variant ends up with these corrections.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

    Super confused by some of their decisions lately.

    Spending money and effort on the SD cards was a real win.

    Delving deeper into the smaller form factor and less powerful versions…don’t get it.

    Now a portable monitor? Kinda confused.

    Right now they are fighting against the ESP community, RockChip overtaking their dominance, and BPi being a better price point. I’d rather they just make more production runs with extra features or hats that aren’t…a monitor you can get from better manufacturers cheaper.

    ASUS has a fantastic portable gaming monitor with 144hz at a similar price point. I’d buy that over this.

  • EchoCranium@lemmy.zipEnglish
    29·
    3 days ago

    They neglected to include a M2 slot for a SSD. If they add it to a future release, I’ll have to get one. Could finally have my own Shadowrun rigger deck!

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    Im not 100% sure about the monitor especially since you have to get another power adapter for 15$, but the 500 looks neat.

    • darreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      I believe you can run the monitor at 60% brightness and reduced volume on it’s speakers when powering it from the 500… the separate power supply just allows you to put both of those things to max.

      • mesamune@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        Dont get me wrong, im happy it exists, but i feel like getting a 70-80$ monitor that is 20+ inches at is better than their offering. It will even come with a power cord.

  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    The pi 500 looks amazing and I plan to order!

    I was somewhat impressed with the specs of the raspberry pi 4. It was fast enough to run a desktop client for a bit. But it started suffering when I tried to code my regular programs on it. I turned it into a server and called it a day.

    Where the raspberry Pi 5 is much beefier. And I was getting rid of my aging chromebook too.

    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      I just bought a used Ryzen 3 ThinkCentre as a media centre PC for 66€. Feel like the pi has a hard time competing both on price and performance in that field.

    • SuperIce@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      I have a Pi400 that I used as a 4K UHD Kodi client. It worked great. The only thing it lacked was Doing Vision and HDR10+ support. Normal HDR10 was fine.

      Now I just use the Jellyfin app for my TV (LG), which also support DV.

    • Flatfire@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      Client, potentially. Sadly definitely not a server since the removed hardware encoding

      • OwlPaste@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Yes I was looking as a client to replace the “smart” TV app that is increasingly becoming bloatware with something I can control. Just kinda need a “self hosted” client that can support 70mbps 10bit hdr streams or there about.

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      No promises, but the monitor was built for low-powered devices. So it should work in theory.

      I bought another portable monitor for $70 and that also worked. But so did a cheap $20 used LCD monitor.