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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.

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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.

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[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Just looked it up, and I think my point is correct. You could get about one regular HDMI port in the space they used for the two micro ones. And that row of stuff seems kinda full

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

they have full control of the size of the pcb. they could have made it a cm wider.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lots of design considerations to be made there. When they can easily include a micro-full HDMI cord and adapters and stuff are easy to come by, it's not a horrible compromise IMO.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 4 days ago

no, it is, because micro-hdmi is a real brittle connector. you need to be careful when moving a pi4 and up because the cables are heavy and stiff and the connectors are tiiiny.