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

[Alvin Starr]

On 11/11/20 12:19 PM, mwilson--- via talk 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.
> The thing to watch out for these days would be LED monitors with DVI-D
> interfaces.  They're showing up as special offers from various big-name
> retailers.  They will work with RasPi, but need their own form of cable,
> and adaptors, for extra $.
>  From the looks of the product picture at CanaKit, the kit includes an
> ordinary boxed Pi 4B board.  I could be wrong, but if that's true then an
> 8GB memory version would just be a  matter of price.
>

It looks like its actually a custom board to fit in the bottom of the 
keyboard case.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-400-teardown-and-review



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