Comment on Raspberry Pi Gets Desktop Form Factor
palordrolap@fedia.io 1 week ago
This would appear to indicate that someone in charge of product design at Pi HQ is a Gen X-er or Boomer desperate to relive computing history through their own products.
Computer on a board. Bigger computer on a board. Computer entirely within a keyboard.
And now a computer in a PC-like case.
Prediction: The next step will be some kind of ARM-based cloud service.
This would appear to indicate that someone in charge of product design at Pi HQ is a Gen X-er or Boomer desperate to relive computing history through their own products.
You didn’t already know that the Raspberry Pi concept was inspired by the BBC Micro from the 80s?
Actually yes, but I didn't expect they'd go down the same avenues with the Pi.
I actually considered getting one of the computer-in-keyboard versions precisely because I'm of that same generation, but I couldn't justify the expense.
AIO PCs were and remain a terrible idea…the keyboard PC is a cool novelty reminiscent of the Commodore 64/128 era but kinda stupid nowadays. Would be cool in a C64 shell as a dedicated emulation device tho.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 1 week ago
This doesn’t appear to be made by the people from either the Raspberry Pi Foundation or Raspberry Pi Holdings.