The Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor Goes On Sale

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts rejoice! The much-anticipated Raspberry Pi 500, a powerful new computer built into a compact keyboard, has finally hit the shelves alongside a sleek companion monitor. This exciting release brings enhanced performance, improved connectivity, and a streamlined design to the Raspberry Pi lineup, offering users an affordable and versatile computing solution for work, play, and education.

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Our original mission at Raspberry Pi was to put affordable, programmable personal computers in the hands of young people all over the world. And while we’ve taken some detours along the way – becoming one of the world’s largest manufacturers of industrial and embedded computers – this mission remains at the heart of almost everything we do. It drives us to make lower-cost products like the $15 Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, and more powerful products, like our flagship Raspberry Pi 5 SBC. These products provide just the essential processing element of a computer, which can be combined with the family television, and second-hand peripherals, to build a complete and cost-effective system.

But over time we have come to understand the benefits of integration: some people are better served by a system that is ready to use straight out of the box. This need was dramatized during the early days of the COVID pandemic, when we worked with the Raspberry Pi Foundation to deliver thousands of Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kits and monitors to young people studying from home in the UK. Our experiences with that programme informed the development of Raspberry Pi 400, our all-in-one PC, whose form factor (and name) harks back to the great 8-bit and 16-bit computers – the BBC Micro, Sinclair Spectrum, and Commodore Amiga – of the 1980s and 1990s.

Meet Raspberry Pi 500

In the four years since it launched, Raspberry Pi 400 has become a hugely popular choice for enthusiasts and educators. And today, we’re launching its successor, Raspberry Pi 500, bringing the features and performance of the Raspberry Pi 5 platform to our all-in-one form factor:

• 2.4 GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 processor
• 8 GB LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM
• VideoCore VII GPU, supporting OpenGL ES 3.1 and Vulkan 1.3
• Dual 4Kp60 HDMI display output
• Dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0
• 2 × USB 3.0 ports, supporting simultaneous 5 Gbps operation
• 1 × USB 2.0 port
• Gigabit Ethernet port
• Horizontal 40-pin Raspberry Pi GPIO connector

Raspberry Pi 500 is priced at $90, including a 32 GB Raspberry Pi-branded SD card, and is also available in a $120 Desktop Kit, which adds:

• Raspberry Pi Mouse
• Raspberry Pi 27 W USB-C Power Supply
• 2 m micro HDMI to HDMI cable
• Raspberry Pi Beginner’s Guide, 5th Edition

The vision thing – an official Raspberry Pi Monitor

Although it’s highly integrated, Raspberry Pi 500 is only half the story: to build a complete system, you still need a display device. Which is why we’re also launching the Raspberry Pi Monitor, available now at $100. Designed to coordinate perfectly with your Raspberry Pi 500 or cased Raspberry Pi 5, it incorporates a 15.6″ full HD IPS panel with a 45% colour gamut and an 80° viewing angle, together with a pair of 1.2 W speakers, in a slender enclosure with a fold-away integrated stand and VESA mounting points.

Power is provided via a USB-C connector. Cost-conscious users can power the monitor directly from their Raspberry Pi via the included USB-A to USB-C cable; in this mode display brightness is limited to 60% of maximum (still quite bright!) and volume to 50% of maximum (still quite loud!). Using a dedicated USB-C supply capable of delivering 5 V/3 A, like the Raspberry Pi 15 W USB-C Power Supply, enables the full brightness and volume ranges.

Faster, better, cheaper: pick two Raspberry Pi 400 price cuts

While we’re incredibly excited about Raspberry Pi 500, we need to remember that cost remains a barrier to access for many people, young and old. So we’re also taking this opportunity to cut the price of Raspberry Pi 400 from $70 to $60, and the Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit from $100 to $80. We’re also bundling a Raspberry Pi-branded SD card with every Raspberry Pi 400, to help you get the best possible performance out of the system.

We know that quite a few of you have been eagerly awaiting both of our new products, and we hope you enjoy them now they’re here. We’ve seen Raspberry Pi 400 everywhere from retro gaming setups to university exam facilities and hospital offices; we’re really looking forward to finding out where Raspberry Pi 500 and our new Raspberry Pi Monitor end up.