“Great machine. I intend to use the Pi 400 on the TV in my motorhome but in the meantime trying RISC-OS bringing back memories of the Acorn Archimedes. The children now in there 30's would love to see some of the old games they used to play running on it. Ubuntu runs well just like on my laptop and desktop. Will probably run that or Raspian in the end.”
“This was so easy to set up (plug in a screen and mouse, micro usb card and power). et access to the gpio ports. The keyboard is good to the touch, and the keys to turn it on and off are a great addition.”
“First I used mine to build a couple of memory cards. Then to write a few python scripts. Now it's running a large spreadsheet.
The Pi 400 is not my main computer, but it makes a great scratch pad for projects and odd jobs. I leave it on all the time and it wakes from sleep in a second, whenever I need to do a quick bit of work.
I also highly recommend the Pi Hut micro-HDMI to VGA adapter, which works great with it.”
“It's a good bit of kit, but very important to remember that this has a different use case to a standard Pi4. This is a desktop computer with limited hackable bits.
It has the 40 pin header (extension cable is a must!) but no CSI or DSI, and 'missing' a USB port as it's hardwired to the keyboard.
For retro console emulators or just a cheap PC it's a good choice, but for hardware projects I'll stick to a standard formfactor Pi.”
“Purchased on day of launch, arrived next day - super reliable company as always!
What a fabulous product - something that's been needed for pi's and is finally available as an official device.
Nice keyboard (as the pi ones are), runs nice and cool compared to pi 4 and is noticeably faster in the desktop and command line - i didnt think i would see the difference with the extra 300MHz but i could!
Recommended!”
