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Everything works! Great quality and functionality. Easy to install and get working. Very good price, especially considering this is a full fledged computer. Just ad monitor. Everything else including power adapter, mouse, and HDMI cable, etc. Interfaces with no fiddling to flash drives, SDX drives (adapter included!), USB hard drives two HDMI displays, etc. Includes WiFi and Bluetooth. Everything was plug and play. Includes interface for GPIO—-EVERYTHING! GUI precludes need to understand terminal commands Beautiful machine. Very highest recommendation. Buy it. Read more

Easy to set up. Keyboard is comfortable to use. Just connect your hdmi monitor, plug-in to power, plug-in mouse, and follow instructions. Audio over hdmi. Read more

This is a kit that includes the Raspberry Pi 500 and all the accessories you may need to make it a full linux based computer system. While this kit doesn't come with a computer monitor, you can always just cable the computer to your TV (using your TV as the computer's display) if you don't have a spare monitor lying around your house. For those who don't already know, a Raspberry Pi 500 is essentially an 8GB model of the Raspberry Pi 5 (a small moderately powerful linux based PC) that is built into a custom keyboard case. Since the Pi 500 is essentially a Pi 5 (just with a different circuit board and a custom case), the Pi 500 will happily run any Pi 5 software and also accept many of the accessories that you can get for a PI 5. So if you happen to already own a Pi 5 (as I did) you can copy any of your software from the Pi 5 to the new Pi 500. In fact I didn't even go through the basic Pi 500 setup, instead I just copied my main Pi 5 "boot disk" (my Pi 5 boot disk was a USB SSD) and plugged that copy into the Pi 500 (along with removing the micro-SD boot disk my Pi 500 shipped with). And with this arrangement I simply needed to power up my Pi 500 to have it bootup and run with the same software configuration my existing Pi 5 had. In my case I got the Pi 500 primarily as a "travel computer" to take with me on trips. And from that standpoint the Pi 500 is a better choice than my existing Pi 5, in part due to the Pi 500's keyboard that is built into its case (so I don't have to pack up and carry around a USB keyboard with my Pi 500, like I had to do with my Pi 5). However, since I only occasionally go on trips, I figured it wouldn't hurt to also use my Pi 500 as a spare computer around the house. And while the Pi 500 does have its own keyboard, I am able to confirm that plugging other keyboards into the Pi's USB ports (or in my case I plugged a USB hub into my Pi 500, and plugged the needed keyboards/mice into that hub) does in fact work. This is handy around the house, as it means I can use a wireless USB keyboard/mouse with my Pi 500, instead of having to reach over to the shelf where the Pi 500 is currently sitting on. As to cost, this kit was around $150 when I bought it. Since the retail prices of the Pi 500 (if you can find a place selling just the Pi 500 for list/retail price) is around $100, this means that the accessories included in this kit are being sold for around $50. From my look at the market, that is a good price for the accessories if you need all of them (but in my case I only needed around 1/2 of them for my use). Still I got this entire kit because I didn't have the option to just buy the Pi itself (for it's retail price) and then individually buy the few accessories I needed (and I did want to own a Raspberry Pi 500). And I also didn't like that this Amazon seller was from a different country (China perhaps?). Not only does this give me less recourse if any of this hardware has issues, it also means I only had the option of slower shipping (it took 2+ weeks for my kit to arrive). However this is a complete Raspberry Pi 500 computer kit at a reasonable price. So I bought this kit even though I had to wait for it to be packed up, go through customs, get shipped to the USA, and eventually get delivered to my home. Read more