The Raspberry Pi 500+ has been revealed as the latest upgrade to the all-in-one PC, sporting some slightly fancier hardware than before. It’s the same idea as the Raspberry Pi 500, giving you an Arm-based PC inside a little keyboard but this time they’ve made various improvements to it.
You now get a mechanical keyboard with removable keycaps and individually addressable RGB LEDs, an internal M.2 socket pre-fitted with a 256GB Raspberry Pi SSD, and 16GB of RAM. It comes pre-installed with Raspberry Pi OS (Linux).
The full specifications:
- 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU, with cryptography extensions, 512KB per-core L2 caches and a 2MB shared L3 cache.
- 16GB LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM.
- Internal 256GB Raspberry Pi SSD.
- Support for M.2 NVMe SSDs up to 2280 form factor.
- 84-, 85- or 88-key mechanical keyboard (depending on regional variant).
- Gateron KS-33 Blue low-profile switches.
- Dual-band (2.4GHz and 5.0GHz) IEEE 802.11b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi.
- Bluetooth 5.0, BLE.
- Gigabit Ethernet.
- 2 × USB 3.0 port and 1 × USB 2.0 port.
- Horizontal 40-pin GPIO header.
- 2 × micro HDMI port (supports up to 4Kp60).
- H.265 (4Kp60 decode).
- OpenGL ES 3.0 graphics.
- SD card support: microSD card slot for operating system and data storage.
- Power: 5V DC via USB-C connector.
It’s around £172.80 / $200 depending on where you buy it from.
See more in their announcement.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
