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Rapsberry Pi 500 Review

by tankenmate on 9/25/25, 1:48 PM with 6 comments

• by thw_9a83c on 9/25/25, 3:01 PM

  > Title: "Rapsberry Pi 500 Review"

  It's actually Raspberry Pi 500+ review. Difference includes mechanical keyboard, LED lighting, 16GB of RAM, and NVMe SSD storage.

  Anyway, this finally looks like a nice ARM64 Linux desktop.

• by rocketvole on 9/25/25, 7:03 PM

  It seems like Raspberry Pi has been trying hard to push itself as a PC instead of a tinkering embedded systems board. I'm not sure how I feel about this, since you can get better performing computers for cheaper. That being said, I'm not sure if it even holds up as a reasonably priced hardware learning platform anymore, with esp32, arduino, and others providing a very similar learning curriculum at a fraction of the price.

• by JdeBP on 9/25/25, 7:44 PM

  Manufacturer's WWW page discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370021 .

• by BizarroLand on 9/25/25, 6:46 PM

  For $200, how does it stack up against the competition? Only benchmarking it against itself seems like it's trying to make it seem better than it might actually be.

• by mrlonglong on 9/25/25, 4:50 PM

  Looks a little like the Acorn Electron back in the 80s, a cut down version of the BBC B micro that didn't sell well. Hopefully they have better luck this time.

• by sphars on 9/25/25, 5:22 PM

  An RGB mechanical keyboard is an interesting but welcome choice. Definitely contributed to the piece increase to $200+ though