Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor are available now
Just in time for the holiday season, Raspberry Pi have launched two new bits of hardware for you to tinker with the Raspberry Pi 500 and an official Raspberry Pi Monitor.
They neglected to include a M2 slot for a SSD. If they add it to a future release, I'll have to get one. Could finally have my own Shadowrun rigger deck!
The website also shows a large unpopulated section of PCB near the network jack with "PoE" silkscreened:
https://assets.raspberrypi.com/static/3f5c4569bdef13d9e0bcfce8d5e2d780/00863/disassembled.webp
PoE built in could make this a very interesting device indeed.
STILL!!!! This would be a game changer. I do not get the wood they have for SD. So dumb.
Yep, that made sense when it was a "mere" microcontroller, but in computerland it's not the best option. Actually it's bad. There are add-ons that can be attached, but I doubt you can stuff them in there.
I think the setup looks super cute. Unfortunately I have no use for it.
Super confused by some of their decisions lately.
Spending money and effort on the SD cards was a real win.
Delving deeper into the smaller form factor and less powerful versions...don't get it.
Now a portable monitor? Kinda confused.
Right now they are fighting against the ESP community, RockChip overtaking their dominance, and BPi being a better price point. I'd rather they just make more production runs with extra features or hats that aren't...a monitor you can get from better manufacturers cheaper.
ASUS has a fantastic portable gaming monitor with 144hz at a similar price point. I'd buy that over this.
I’m so annoyed that the 500 price increased so drastically yet doesn’t include PoE or NVMe support components despite having unpopulated pads on the board directly for “flexible future designs”. I’d prefer a $40 increase over the 400 to include these components instead of $20 more for blank spaces and no guarantee of making it work DIY style. Hopefully the 500B variant ends up with these corrections.
Im not 100% sure about the monitor especially since you have to get another power adapter for 15$, but the 500 looks neat.
I believe you can run the monitor at 60% brightness and reduced volume on it's speakers when powering it from the 500... the separate power supply just allows you to put both of those things to max.
The pi 500 looks amazing and I plan to order!
I was somewhat impressed with the specs of the raspberry pi 4. It was fast enough to run a desktop client for a bit. But it started suffering when I tried to code my regular programs on it. I turned it into a server and called it a day.
Where the raspberry Pi 5 is much beefier. And I was getting rid of my aging chromebook too.
Do you reckon the 5 is powerful enough to run a media server with the possibility of transcoding on the fly?
Ohhh I wonder if this can work as a 4k 10bit uhd Plex/jellyfin client?
I have a Pi400 that I used as a 4K UHD Kodi client. It worked great. The only thing it lacked was Doing Vision and HDR10+ support. Normal HDR10 was fine.
Now I just use the Jellyfin app for my TV (LG), which also support DV.
Client, potentially. Sadly definitely not a server since the removed hardware encoding
Yes I was looking as a client to replace the "smart" TV app that is increasingly becoming bloatware with something I can control. Just kinda need a "self hosted" client that can support 70mbps 10bit hdr streams or there about.
Too late, bought a mini pc instead and loaded Linux.
So think the screen got potential for steam deck use?
I have a similar one from Amazon, one of the Chinese brands that are named by rolling your face on the keyboard.
I can connect it via usb-c to my laptop, deck or Switch. The laptop doesn’t need extra power. The others can be powered through the display.
Better resolution, HDR and decent speakers.
No promises, but the monitor was built for low-powered devices. So it should work in theory.
I bought another portable monitor for $70 and that also worked. But so did a cheap $20 used LCD monitor.
