[GTALUG] First new home computer for decades - Raspberry Pi 400

[Giles Orr]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 09:10, James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> On 2020-11-10 9:56 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> > My second thought was: They removed the composite port.  I probably
> > would never personally use it, but I could imagine there are some people
> > that like attaching things to old CRTs for gaming that would miss it.
> > But perhaps most people like myself just don't care about analog video
> > anymore so they probably made the right call on that.
>
> A CRT monitor would have to be pretty old.  I bought my first LCD
> monitor almost 15 years ago and even then it was a refurb.  Then we get
> to wasted space and power.

And let's not forget weight: a 17" CRT was 20kg.  They're freaking
brutal to move.  All that lead shielding and a huge glass tube ...
The death of the CRT is mourned by very few indeed.

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