I'm not generally sensitive to variations in keyboard layout due to a long career involving Other People's Computers in large numbers, but I was plagued with constant mistyping problems the entire time I tested the Pi 400. The integrated keyboard is functional but noticeably narrower than a standard keyboard. and a full-sized keyboard might not be a bad idea while you're at it. Within the limits of the Pi 400's very generous price, it's not really fair to complain too hard about a few aesthetic gaffes here and there! Consumers with a few extra dollars to spend might want to consider replacing the Pi 400's mouse with something a bit more functional, though. That said, it's important to remember that the entire kit retails for $100. The red cable for the mouse clashes pretty violently with the off-white cables for USB-C power and micro-HDMI out, which doesn't help any.
They are both stiffer and shorter than I'd prefer in an ideal world, making it difficult to impossible to end up with a setup that doesn't look like a rat's nest. Unfortunately, the remaining cables are unusually likely to snarl and look a bit feral. On the plus side, the integrated keyboard means fewer cables to deal with. Unboxed and plugged in, the Pi 400 is functional but not particularly lovely. Upton told Ars that the Pi 400 is about 20-percent faster than the Pi 4 it has largely the same components under the hood but on a differently laid-out board, and its BCM2711 CPU is clocked a touch higher than the BCM2711 in the Pi 4. The new form factor-which has apparently been in the works ever since the introduction of the official Raspberry Pi keyboard-addresses and enthusiastically supports the Pi 4's growing use case as a replacement or alternative for the traditional desktop PC. The new model directly targets desktop replacement use and can be purchased solo for $70 or as a full kit (as seen above) for $100. In brief, the Pi 400 is a slightly faster version of the 4GiB Pi 4 that ships preassembled in a small, wedge-shaped chassis with integrated keyboard. I learned of the new Pi model last week while interviewing Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton and Canonical Desktop Engineering Director Martin Wimpress about Ubuntu 20.10's newly improved desktop support for the Pi hardware family. Further Reading Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla adds Raspberry Pi as a “first class citizen”Late Friday afternoon, I got an exciting SMS notification-my review sample of the new Raspberry Pi 400 had arrived.
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