“I bought the 4Gb version on it's own. I figured I could find a suitable power supply and make my own NOOBS card. I could get the Pi to boot but had no control, i.e. mouse and keyboard dead! Therefore I couldn't select the OS on the first screen. Since then I have bought an official power supply and an official NOOBS card in the hope that they might rectify the issue. Sadly not. I've looked on various forums but found nothing of use. Most threads suggest checking various things by typing stuff... very hard to do without a keyboard! I have concluded that the USB ports on my Pi are dead. Various different keyboards and mice make no difference. Now if I could just find my purchase receipt I would return it.
For the money I suspect the Pi 4 is an excellent machine but I'll have to wait a little longer to find out.”
“Turns out that all the other PI power supplies I have will not work.
Turns out that despite a spag-bog’s worth of HDMI cables, I need to also buy a new one, or a converter.
I guess I like the new USB-C style charge port.
I guess I like the new HDMI connexion.
I just wish I had been alerted to the fact that I needed them when I was purchasing this.
There is a rumour of PoE, but apparently you need some additional dongle and it is not evident if it (Pi-4) supplies PoE or it can be powered via PoE. That would work for me as I have PoE power supplies floating about, plus PoE on some switches, but no idea if it is to power the PI or not. One would expect so, but where is this thing I need to buy?
So no, every time I try to organise a purchase of the one new HDMI cable I need and the one new power supply (or PoE dongle thing) I can’t get past the order process as I need to buy >$50 for free delivery and I don’t have the time to suss out what might be useful to add to the order.
So, just another Pi-brick lying about for now. At some point, I will find the time, but I am being pestered to submit this review.”
