I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions

Re:I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and he... by PragmaticPulp on Friday November 20, 2020 @02:44PM (#25164093)

eMMC isn't mutually exclusive with having an SD card slot.

Even if they removed the SD slot, you would still reflash the board over USB. That's how it's done with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module. With some software development it could be even easier than fiddling with SD cards.

In education environments, microSD cards tend to disappear a lot. Having one less moving piece to lose would be a win.

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Re:I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and he... by stan_rogers on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:16PM (#25164459)

And having flashed cards ready to hand over is a win. "Factory reset" in the time it takes to swap a card. Your point? The Pi (apart from the CM) is for kids. It happens to be useful to other people as well, but that is not, was not, and never will be the aim of the Foundation.

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Re:I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and he... by nikisweeting on Friday November 20, 2020 @08:48PM (#25167247)

It is when they have to build the thing for <$25 though.

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Re:I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and he... by gbraad on Friday November 20, 2020 @08:10PM (#25167043)

Misplaced cards happen, but it does allow easier sharing of the boards.

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