Really want to like these (400/500 and the 4/5 generally) but - at least where I am - the pricing makes them hard to consider when the N100 is so cheap, sips power and (for my use-cases, anyway) lets you dodge any Arm-related compatibility issues.
I bought a 400 mostly to support them and I like the designs the PI team does. It felt a bit underpowered as someone with a powerful x86 fedora desktop, but it reminds me of the 'cheap enough to let a kid play/break it' hand-me-down computers I grew up with. I wish I had more time to tinker around, build a 'cyberdeck'.
Oh my, I'm hyped. Been waiting for that for a while. I mean, for my kid (at least officially) .<p>I would gladly overpay if there will be an 8G version, as it would make it a nice set - decent spec plus decent passive cooling out of the box.
Will there be full size HDMI or will the cabal that forces them to use mini/microHDMI keep its hold on the 500?<p>I never got why they left the waste of a GPIO connector on the 400 and forced you to have to adapt the video outs.
Please put a pointing device on the 500. They make the 400 as tiny as possible, then waste the smallness by making you burn a bunch of desk space by adding a mouse.