[kllrnohj]

> This RP400 is small, can be taken everywhere by kids

Not usefully it can't. There's no display, so that "everywhere" is restricted to places that have an HDMI display just hanging out. Which is then a vanishingly small number of places. And since we're talking about kids - places with a front panel HDMI port, which is even rarer. Or you have to pair it with a portable monitor, in which case you spent as much as an entry level laptop and got something worse in return.

This is a cute little toy, and I want one, but that's all it is - a toy. Same as all the RPI's before. Good intro to hobby electronics programming with the GPIO, but not a disruptive entry-level computing experience, either. That place remains in the realm of the ultra-budget laptops, as they require no existing infrastructure.

[tomcam]

> "everywhere" is restricted to places that have an HDMI display just hanging out. Which is then a vanishingly small number of places.

Wait what? Doesn't virtually every TV sold in the last 10 years have an HDMI port?

[kllrnohj]

Other than your own living room at home, where do you go that has a TV just hanging around free for use? Coffee shops don't. Classrooms don't (certainly not enough for every student, at least). Parks don't. Trains/busses/airplanes don't. Backseat of the parents minivan probably doesn't, either.

Like where else can you use this other than a basically permanent installation at home for this to qualify as "taken everywhere by kids"?

[baq]

there's less and less accessible ports. tvs are large, mounted high up and the cables aren't long enough to be comfortable.