The fusion of retro and modern: RISC OS 5 on Raspberry Pi 400 review

[Retro]

This is basically a modern Archimedes / Risc PC and I'm tempted to buy this myself just for the novelty of it. Check out the video review with purchase links below it. Note that the operating system is now free and open source.

RISC OS Open: Welcome

www.riscosopen.org

Buy a Raspberry Pi 400 unit – Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi 400 is your complete personal computer, built into a compact keyboard. Featuring a quad-core 64-bit processor, 4GB of RAM, wireless networking, dual-display output, and 4K video playback, as well as a 40-pin GPIO header, it's the most powerful and easy-to-use Raspberry Pi computer...

www.raspberrypi.org

Raspberry Pi 400 UK Keyboard Layout - Computer Only

An awesome computer built within a keyboard from Raspberry Pi, based on the popular Raspberry Pi 4. With 4GB RAM, 4K video playback, dual-display, Wi-Fi, various connector ports and a powerful 1.8GHz quad-core Arm processor, this mini-computer can take on most tasks.

www.okdo.com

Raspberry Pi 400 All-in-One Personal Computer Kit - UK Keyboard Layout

An awesome computer kit that is built within a keyboard from Raspberry Pi based on the popular Raspberry Pi 4. The kit includes a Raspberry Pi 400, power supply, HDMI cable, preloaded microSD card with Raspberry Pi OS, mouse and Beginner guide. You just need to add a monitor!

www.okdo.com

@Geffers I think this will be right up your street.

 

[RobA1200]

ive used a rpi400 for pretty much all GCC forum stuff. it also runs office 365 through the browser quick enough to look at work spreadsheets.

easy to overclock to. only 2 line numbers to adjust.

i seem to use it alot more than other pis - think the physical keyboard has alot to do with it - it feels like a complete product.

and handy for keyboard presses on commodore & spectrum stuff in retropi - i never could be bothered to pull a usb keyboard out before and ended up skipping stuff out of laziness.

ordered 2 more blank micro SDs - going to give risc os a try, see how much its moved on since the version on the risc pc.

 

[Retro]

Running the cloud apps is interesting, as it can do proper modern computing that way.

RISC OS 5 is nice, but must be considered as a tech demo rather than something that you can use as your daily driver.