Raspberry Pi 500+ boasts a high-quality mechanical keyboard with removable keycaps and individually addressable RGB LEDs, an internal M.2 socket pre-fitted with a 256GB Raspberry Pi SSD, and 16GB of RAM.
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2025
38 points (91.3% liked)
Raspberry Pi
3153 readers
1 users here now
Welcome to the programming.dev Raspberry Pi community!
Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers. It is widely used in many areas because of its low cost, modularity, and open design. It is typically used by computer and electronic hobbyists.
Rules
Members of this community are expected to exhibit mature and respectful behavior.
Those who fail to uphold these standards may find their posts or comments removed, with repeat offenders potentially facing a permanent ban.
Please keep discussions in English so that they can be appropriately moderated.
Links
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
This is a cool piece of tech but I can't really think of real world use cases besides looking cool and having that weird but cool computer-in-keyboard retro vibe. I had the same idea with the 400.
Maybe the best use would be some sort of super portable thin client, but looks very capable to be just that. Having a battery would have made sense too, for portability. Any out of the box way of connecting it to a smartphone screen would be great too, even if it's just tty.
Maybe I'm just being obtuse and just want a laptop, but the whole thing seems impractical to me.
If I had one I'd probably dedicate it to emulation.
But I have a MiSTer for that, so...
I can do emulation with a regular keyboardless rpi connected to my tv. You want portable emulation? I do that with a gpi case, and runs on batteries! This weird desktop approach is what doesn't make any sense to me.
I could stream a beefier PC to it with sunshine/moonlight maybe and use it as some kind of really light desktop, but still, why would I do that and not just have the beefier PC in said desk.