An Improvement Over The Pi 400 And A Moderately Interesting New Display
The Raspberry Pi 500 is the newest version of the self contained system offered to customers; all it’s components hidden inside a ten-keyless keyboard with lots of connectivity. Inside the Pi 500 you will find a 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU which is still effectively cooled by a passive heatsink similar to the one in the previous Pi 400. The Register tested and found that even with the extra power draw, they could not get that ARM to throttle because of thermals, so you will have no worries there. There is 8GB RAM and the Pi 500 ships with a 32GB SD card. The Pi 500 will run you $90, and in order to keep the price at that level they did not use the new Compute Module 5, nor will you see a 16GB model. There was talk of installing a trap door and space for an SSD, however that also proved to be a bit much, at least for now.
The Pi 500 offers gigabit ethernet, 802.11b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0. On the back are a pair of USB 3 ports, a signle one USB 2 port, a 40-pin GPIO header, and USB-C power, the front of the keyboard is where you’ll find a pair of micro HDMI ports, and a microSD card, along with the aforementioned ethernet port. The Raspberry Pi Monitor is 15.6″ with a 1920 x 1080 resolution and a maximum brightness of 250 cd/m2. Input is provided over an HDMI port, and there is a 3.5mm stereo headphone jack if you don’t want to use the built in 1.2W stereo speakers. The Pi Display ships with a power supply, but it can also be powered by a USB port from your Pi 500, though that limits the maximum brightness to 60% and the volume to 50%.