Raspberry Pi 500

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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released a new version of the Raspberry Pi integrated keyboard. The new version replaces the Raspberry Pi 4 with the Raspberry Pi 5 in a custom board.

What is the Raspberry Pi 400?

The Raspberry Pi Foundation created the Raspberry Pi 400 in November 2020 which incorporated the BCM2711 processor (clocked at 1.8GHz) that was introduced in the Raspberry Pi 4 board released some 18 months earlier, and made use of an aluminium heat spreader. The board has 4GB of RAM.

Featuring a white top with a compact keyboard and a red underbelly to house the custom single board computer.

A single USB 2.0 port is provided for the mouse that sports a similar livery. Next to that are two USB 3.0 ports for connectivity and two micro HDMI ports to connect monitors and an Ethernet port for network. The USB-C port is used for power and the microSD card is for the operating system. Lastly, the 40 GPIO port provides access to the data pins, power pins etc.

There is also WiFi supporting 802.11b/g/n/ac as well as both Bluetooth and BLE.

The UK model comes with the UK keyboard layout comes with a UK power plug, the US keyboard layout comes with a US power plug, the EU model comes with the US keyboard layout and the EU plug. French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Portuguese models come with the appropriate country keyboard and EU plug.

The Raspberry Pi retails for £57 from ThePiHut.

What is the Raspberry Pi 500?

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just released the Raspberry Pi 500 that makes use of the BCM2712 processor (clocked at 2.4GHz) as used in the Raspberry Pi 5 board. The board has twice the memory of the Pi 400 at 8GB.

Featuring a white top with a compact keyboard and white underbelly.

The connectors are in a different order, but look similar to the Pi 400, except that the Pi 400 had both USB3.0 ports sharing the 5Gbps speed and on this model, they are separate connections.

On some of the pre-release models, there was a space for an NVMe storage SSD, and provision for a Power over Ethernet transformer but the necessary components to drive these have not been populated on the board, these features may become available in the near future, since the Pi 5 features a connector for PCIe expansion, and there are HATs (Hardware Attached on Top) that support NVMe SSDs for the Pi 5.

The keyboard options are currently just UK and US and available on pre-release for £84.60 on ThePiHut.

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