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On 21/11/2024 23:44, Daniel wrote:
> This past summer was a good time to lower the power bill and overall
> temperature of the den by transitioning to rpi's for my computing
> needs. The main pc was replaced by a pi400. Lovely, silent, low
> power. Lovely.
>
> Well, mostly so. I really don't like the keyboard and question why they
> went with it. The full sized keyboard is something I miss, you know,
> with the full row of function keys, dedicated number pad, full sized
> arrows, the pageup.down,insert,delete cluster. The keys themselves suck
> - where they often fail to register key presses and I have to fix
> spelling quite often. I had hoped that the keys would wear in and solve
> the problem, but it really just seems to be bad design. Hopes are it's
> simply bad luck and a bad keyboard.

That's one of the reasons I never saw the point of the Pi400, with all
the wires attached to the keyboard unit, particularly as the keyboard is
small and not the highest quality. That and it reminds me of my first
Acorn Electron, which I loved but hated at the same time for being
slower than the BBC B and no MODE 7.

All of my 'desktop' Pi's and their associated wiring go behind the
monitors and TVs out of the way. In the study, I have a single high
quality wireless keyboard and mouse which allows me to talk to a Linux
Pi 5, a RISC OS Pi 4 and a Linux laptop connected to dual monitors. In
the living room I have full sized wireless keyboard and trackpad, and in
the bedroom a mini wireless backlit keyboard and trackpad talking to the
Pi 5s connected to 4K TVs.

---druck

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