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TWO WEEKS WITH THE RASPBERRY PI 400
Can a hackable computer be an easy home companion? Craig Grannell spends a fortnight hunched over Raspberry Pi’s svelte new all-in-one to find out…
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DAY 01
There’s a whiff of nostalgia as I free the Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit from its cardboard confines. Being a computer inside a keyboard, it’s a bit of a 1980s throwback, recalling the long-lost days of the C64, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro and Commodore Amiga. But this is no chunky contraption: in fact, the device resembles nothing more than a modern (if cheap) PC keyboard that’s had the Windows key swapped out for one with a Raspberry Pi logo.
The Pi 400’s Linux OS is a world of faff next to macOS or Windows, but that’s countered by what you can do with it