Has anybody checked out the Raspberry Pi 400 yet?

[eagleuk]

Hey guys,

Has anyone checked out the Pi 400 yet?

Seems like a really cool device, I've decided to give it a whirl as a development machine for a bit to see how it goes.

Arriving tomorrow although I'm in Belgium for the week.

CPU has a different stepping and a higher clock speed out the box, sure it can reach a bit further too.

Reviews seem to say the CPU never really thermal throttle to due to the 'heatsink' in the keyboard.

It's very similar to the old spectrum/commodore devices.

 

[eagleuk]

I think it looks/practically is ace. First thing I thought when I seen media shares on it was 'hmm that would be good to sit away from distractions and develop on'.

Yeah it seems really good for what it is, I got mine yesterday but sold out most places already though.

Can run a 2.2ghz clock stable which makes it a much better experience.

 

[eagleuk]

I never use the GUI im afraid. Only because I got 2 original Pi's and they were sluggish running it in normal OS mode. I also have 4x Pi2's in a cluster to experiment and dabble in testing/deployment.

If I got the 400 I would use it purely to code python on I think and take advantage of the features (bluetooth/wifi etc).

Had a few days with it now and it's really is pretty good value for what is. Worth it just for the performance boost!

 

[eagleuk]

Santa is bringing me the Bare 8Gb Pi 4 and a few bits and bobs, quite looking forward to it. The last bit of programming/scripting I did was with an Arduino so this will be much more powerful.

Never touched a Arduino worth getting into?