Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC
by wang_li on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:46PM
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PoE seems off for the target audience of this device. In all likelihood the most prevalent mode of network access is going to be via wifi.
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Oh totally. And I can see why they'd want to keep the component count down. Their regular keyboard is $17, and the 4GB pi4 is $55. So if you just duct-taped the pi to the keyboard, you'd already be $2 (plus tape) over the RRP of the 400.
The bit I don't get is why use an ethernet transformer at all, especially if they're not reaping the benefit from it.