Raspberry Pi 400 teardown and review

Re:Raspberry Pi 400 teardown and review by ohazi on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:12AM (#24966054)

No idea if they have plans for this, but a laptop form-factor device would sell like hotcakes (judging by the apparent success of the Pinebook Pro).

You could probably design a drop-in replacement motherboard for a Thinkpad X or T sized laptop pretty easily using the new compute module 4. You could even used the single pcie lane to run it off of a real SSD, since the microSD card seems to be the speed/reliability bottleneck.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 teardown and review by akmittal on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:36AM (#24966198)

You can connect Pi to this and get a laptop experience. It has full HD screen, Built in battery and can connect Both SBC and any Samsung Dex/Huawei Easy Projection phone.

https://nexdock.com/

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 teardown and review by rglullis on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:14AM (#24966419)

I'd take the idea of using the PCIe lane for an SSD but I would take in the opposite direction. What I would like to see is a board in this form-factor and a slot for the Compute Module. The board could then be a (hopefully cheap) dock for the CM that we could have as the basis for different modes of computing. The CM + disk could be a portable "puck" that should be easy to plug into the dock.

What would that gives us? Well, I could get multiple of these docks and I'd just have to carry the CM puck around. If I am working I'd still like to use an external keyboard, mouse and a big display. I could have a dock on my TV if I want to play games or have "smart TV" functions. We could also have a "laptop version" of this dock and it would be like the Atrix lapdock. One could even imagine a dock in the form-factor of a smartphone/tablet.

Such a system would help a lot in fighting e-waste (we would be able to upgrade only the things that need upgrading, instead of being played into planned obsolescence) and it would also be an intuitive way to get back things from the cloud and make computing "Personal" again - the "puck" with the brains and memory would be the physical representation of the things that we have, the docks would just be the different ways to interact with it.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 teardown and review by jliu70 on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:18AM (#24969705)

As someone already mentioned - there's the nexdock which gives you the ability to have a laptop form factor for the Raspberry Pi. There's also a kickstarter from Elecrow offering a nifty laptop form factor called the CrowPi2. The CrowPi2 emphasis is on learning so there's a PCB with lots of sensors and other devices built-in.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 teardown and review by gambiting on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:26AM (#24966141)

Just remember that the PCIe slot on the compute module comes at the expense of all USB ports. It's one or the other, not both.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 teardown and review by ohazi on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:28AM (#24966155)

Not all of them -- Only the USB3 ports

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 teardown and review by floatboth on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:40AM (#24966227)

On the 4, the USB 2 ports come from XHCI too. I guess on the CM then they used the DWC-OTG controller for them? (Which on the 4 is used for Type-C in device/gadget mode)

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