Apropos our discussion at the online Meeting last night, The Rapberry Pi Foundation have released this:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/designing-raspberry-pi-400/ The big question that it answers for me is the thermal management issue. Early versions of the Pi 4 were subject to some major overheating problems. These were mitigated by firmware updates (presumably more throttling). The Pi 400 uses a big heat spreader to dissipate the heat and allow the standard clock speed to be increased from 1.5 GHz to 1.8 GHz. As I said last night, at £67 for the basic version and £95 for the kit it seems to be a pretty good buy for someone who hasn't much prior knowledge of computing in general and physical computing in particular. (I am a bit of an RPi fan BTW.) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-11-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
