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The ultimate all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500+ on sale now at $200 (www.raspberrypi.com)
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Raspberry Pi 500+ boasts a high-quality mechanical keyboard with removable keycaps and individually addressable RGB LEDs, an internal M.2 socket pre-fitted with a 256GB Raspberry Pi SSD, and 16GB of RAM.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh that is kind of interesting about clips vs bolts. But, they really should have modified the 500 case as needed to add a slot for the SSD. I don't want to spend 2x more just to get that slot. Oh well, if I go this route I'll just get a pi 5. It looks like memory upgrade is a huge pain though, and 16gb upgrade is not known to work. People have upgraded to 8gb though.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you know anyone with a 3£ printer near by. And some time with a craft knife.

    Would be pretty darn easy to cut the slot in the case. And print a plastic cover that clips in.

    As you said plenty on line to add your own M2 and the power circuits to support it.

    Likely will be more soon with the plus to look at.

    Personally. I have a 40p and a 500 so will wait a few months and see what happens. But I will likely go for that keyboard eventually.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Would be pretty darn easy to cut the slot in the case. And print a plastic cover that clips in.

    You have to do a bunch of SMT soldering to add the circuitry, doesn't seem worth the hassle, especially since I wouldn't use the 500's built-in keyboard anyway. I wish it had included a pointing device like every laptop has. Using a separate mouse means you also need a desk to put it on, which is constraining. So I think I'd get a pi 5 and external keyboard if I wanted to stay with Pi stuff. There isn't that much attraction though.

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