Re:It looks like there will be a Raspberry Pi 500
by darkteflon on Thursday October 03, 2024 @10:24PM
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Not sure - I haven’t tried the 5 and my 4 (8gb SKU) no longer has a desktop environment on it. I put it on the wall next to the tele for use with VirtualHere (low-latency controller connection) on Ubuntu for a Moonlight game streaming setup. Which I think is an excellent use-case for it (although wildly over-provisioned on RAM).
Yeah I was thinking of the 500 in the context of a good kid’s machine. The portability is definitely a plus, although if you’re having to pack a display and a power cable anyway, I think I would (and will, since I happen to be looking for something right now) just go with a Beelink S12 or similar. The kid can do some light gaming on it then, too. The 400 keyboard doesn’t look particularly nice to type on either, tbh.
Yeah I was thinking of the 500 in the context of a good kid’s machine. The portability is definitely a plus, although if you’re having to pack a display and a power cable anyway, I think I would (and will, since I happen to be looking for something right now) just go with a Beelink S12 or similar. The kid can do some light gaming on it then, too. The 400 keyboard doesn’t look particularly nice to type on either, tbh.