Raspberry Pi 400

[Tony Crooks]

While waiting my turn for the’ jab’ and wanting something different to do I bought a Raspberry Pi 400, a dinky computer in a keyboard with mouse, power supply, HDMI lead and manual. Connect it up switch it on, connect to the Internet, download software updates, and good to go - in my case about 40 minutes. Chromium browser, Libreoffice (MS Office clone), Email, VLC, plus more included. Works pretty well and under £100. Decent WiFi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, two free USB 3.0 ports, and can support 2 TV/monitors at up to 4K resolution.

I’m actually going to try turning into a home server as it has the two USB 3.0 ports. it’s Linux so should be possible.

Anyone else given a Raspberry Pi a go?

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Tony Crooks
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[Jason Davies]

On 21 Jan 2021, at 19:28, Tony Crooks wrote:

> Anyone else given a Raspberry Pi a go?

I think it's been used a lot in education to teach people about coding
and programming - they are definitely popular! Let us know if you hack
it to run macOS;)

Cheers,

Jason

[Tony Crooks]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 19:42:16 +0000
"'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group" <sm...@googlegroups.com>
wrote:

I think it has been done - Snow Leopard not Big Sur - predictably runs
like a snail.

[Graham Perrin]

On 21/01/2021 19:28, Tony Crooks wrote:

Anyone else given a Raspberry Pi a go?

No, although it always interested me so today I began taking Raspberry Pi Desktop for a spin.

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Tony, how do you find the desktop environment?

[Tony Crooks]

Desktop is sparse. Menu bar at top similar to Mac - lhs has raspberry, chromium, file manager, then tabs for open apps, rhs has clock, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth.

Trash icon on lhs under menu bar, other icons (links are whatever you want on the desktop) under the trash can. All a bit OS7ish. I suspect like most Linux systems it is all very easy to change how it looks and works.

I should have mentioned my acquaintance with LibreOffice comes from needing to access content in ClarisWorks/AppleWorks files. I believe it is the only app that can still do this while preserving formatting (although it has to make font substitutions as you might expect).

Bottom line -  reasonably familiar. The system seems very stable with no crashes to date (and I have overclocked the processor to nearly 3 times the factory setting and it remains stable and cool after several hours of use).

[mac98aop]

Wow, thanks Tony. Sounds really good. Keep us posted on how you get on!

[Paul Russell]

I bought a Pi 4B a little while ago and set it up with pihole, which filters out ads for everyone on the home network. Works really well. While setting it up it seemed like quite a capable little Linux machine.

Paul

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