Raspberry Pi 400 review: functional $100 desktop PC that supports both Raspberry Pi OS and Ubuntu Desktop, but integrated keyboard is narrow and no 3.5mm jack 全新相機收購

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In brief, the Pi 400 is a slightly faster version of the 4GiB Pi 4 that ships preassembled in a small, wedge-shaped chassis with integrated keyboard. The new model directly targets desktop replacement use and can be purchased solo for $70 or as a full kit (as seen above) for $100.
The new form factor—which has apparently been in the works ever since the introduction of the official Raspberry Pi keyboard—addresses and enthusiastically supports the Pi 4’s growing use case as a replacement or alternative for the traditional desktop PC. Upton told Ars that the Pi 400 is about 20-percent faster than the Pi 4; it has largely the same components under the hood but on a differently laid-out board, and its BCM2711 CPU is clocked a touch higher than the BCM2711 in the Pi 4.

The Pi 400 is simple to set up—all you need is its USB-C power cord, the included HDMI cord for video out, and the included mouse.

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The Pi 400’s keyboard layout is largely sane, aside from compressed arrow keys—but the whole thing is roughly four inches narrower than the corresponding part of a standard desktop keyboard.

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From the left: 40-pin GPIO header, microSD card slot, two micro-HDMI output ports, a USB-C power port, two USB 3.0 type-A ports and one USB 2.0 type-A port, Gigabit Ethernet port, Kensington lock slot.

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The visible hump on the underside of the Pi4 provides a comfortable typing angle and clearance for the passive-cooling vents.

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Unboxed and plugged in, the Pi 400 is functional but not particularly lovely. On the plus side, the integrated keyboard means fewer cables to deal with. Unfortunately, the remaining cables are unusually likely to snarl and look a bit feral. They are both stiffer and shorter than I’d prefer in an ideal world, making it difficult to impossible to end up with a setup that doesn’t look like a rat’s nest. The red cable for the mouse clashes pretty violently with the off-white cables for USB-C power and micro-HDMI out, which doesn’t help any.
That said, it’s important to remember that the entire kit retails for $100. Within the limits of the Pi 400’s very generous price, it’s not really fair to complain too hard about a few aesthetic gaffes here and there! Consumers with a few extra dollars to spend might want to consider replacing the Pi 400’s mouse with something a bit more functional, though… and a full-sized keyboard might not be a bad idea while you’re at it.
The integrated keyboard is functional but noticeably narrower than a standard keyboard. I’m not generally sensitive to variations in keyboard layout due to a long career involving Other People’s Computers in large numbers, but I was plagued with constant mistyping problems the entire time I tested the Pi 400.
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It’s also worth noting that, while the Pi 400 supports dual displays, it does so with micro-HDMI ports, not full-sized ones—and it ships with a single cable. You’ll need an extra cable if you want to use your Pi 400 with dual displays—and since it ships with a micro-HDMI to HDMI cable, not an adapter, things will get complicated if you want to use it with, e.g., portable LED displays that have off-sized ports themselves.
Finally, there’s no 3.5mm audio jack on the Pi—if you’ve got it hooked to a television or a monitor with speakers, it can deliver audio over HDMI; otherwise you’ll need a supported USB audio device. I tested with an inexpensive USB gaming headset, which worked fine.
Impressions—Raspberry Pi OS

Raspberry Pi OS suspects you might be using it on a television, not a proper monitor—so it starts out with significant overscan boundaries by default.

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The overscan goes away after a reboot, if you tell the setup dialog, “Yes, I see big black borders.”

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We tried playing a 4K 60fps YouTube video on the Pi 400. Even at 1080p, not 4k, it dropped a lot of frames.

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Checking CPU utilization, we see that the system’s pretty much pegged while trying to play this 60fps video, even at 720p.

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I began testing the Pi 400 using its native Raspberry Pi OS Linux distribution—which is basically Debian with LXDE and a lot of middleware optimizing it for the Pi. Unfortunately, there’s almost nothing in the way of standard benchmarking utilities that run on ARM Linux—all I could find was the Phoronix Test Suite, which would have required more time to run than I had to test the device in total. So for the most part, I’m going to talk about my subjective experience, rather than hard numbers.
Further ReadingPinebook Pro review—a $200 FOSS-to-the-hilt magnesium-chassis laptopThe good news about the Pi 400 is that it does make a credible desktop PC, in the sense that, yes, you can totally use it without things breaking. With that said, you’re unlikely to forget that you’re using a very inexpensive ARM device. Much like the Pinebook Pro, the Pi 400 exhibits heavy latency while opening applications that’s perhaps possible to live with but impossible not to notice.
Also like the Pinebook Pro, once the applications are actually open, they generally run smoothly enough—although we did find the Pinebook Pro’s hex-core 2.0GHz big/1.5GHz little CPU noticeably punchier than the Pi 400’s straight 1.8GHz quad-core. The biggest problem I had was with high-resolution, high-frames-per-second YouTube videos.
I only tested the Pi 400 with a 1080p monitor, so I can’t speak to its chops with 4K videos—but it’s absolutely not capable of handling the Costa Rica in 4K 60fps HDR video without visible frame drop, even at 720p. The major issue here appears to be the 60fps rate, not the 720p resolution. I also tested the “Forests” episode of Netflix’s docu-series Our Planet on YouTube at 1080p, and that video played back flawlessly.
Examining CPU utilization during playback of the 60fps Costa Rica video, we can see the little 1.8GHz Broadcom quad-core CPU struggling—it’s at its limits, with CPU utilization for all cores at more than 90 percent. Although the BCM2711 supports hardware offload of video decoding—without which, this video would be playing in seconds per frame, rather than just dropping frames a bit—the hardware offload can only do so much, and the CPU is being asked to take on more than it can handle in software.
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This effect is even more visible when entering or leaving full-screen playback. On a standard desktop PC, that operation takes perhaps 100-150ms. On the Pi 400, it frequently takes as much as three or four full seconds, during which the video itself tends to keep playing, but the surrounding controls and framework only partially render/stop rendering while the shift finishes taking place.
Further ReadingBattle of the $350

 

▲台灣資安廠商匯智安全科技參加日本CEATEC展，推出全球首支整合檔案加密功能的無密碼認證金鑰SAMURAI Key（武士之鑰）。（圖／匯智提供）

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隨著科技的快速進展，駭客技術不斷革新，其中密碼破解已成為資料侵入的首選策略。研究指出，大約有80%的資料外洩皆與密碼安全有關。一旦密碼被破解，不論個人或企業，資訊安全都會面臨巨大威脅。

台灣資安廠商匯智安全科技日前參加日本CEATEC消費電子展，推出全球首支整合檔案加密功能的無密碼認證金鑰SAMURAI Key（武士之鑰），不僅提供無密碼認證，更加強了資料加密保護，有效降低資料外洩的風險。

密碼外洩不僅可能導致隱私資料遭竊，更可能使企業遭受財務損失及品牌受損，甚至面臨法律訴訟。因此，加強資訊安全和密碼保護已成為當前急需解決的問題。

零信任（Zero Trust）因應而生，是一種資訊安全架構原則，核心理念是「永不信任，始終驗證」。它假設內部和外部的網路都是不可信的，並要求在授予任何訪問權限之前，對所有使用者和系統進行嚴格的身份驗證和授權。

Google積極推出Passkey無密碼登入技術就是基於零信任（Zero Trust）原則，Passkey技術會要求一些關於使用者的真實信息，例如指紋、面部辨識，以確保只有經過驗證的使用者可以訪問其帳戶或敏感信息，這種技術允許使用者僅透過生物特徵或個人設備解鎖來登入他們的帳戶，而無需輸入傳統的密碼。

根據Microsoft的研究數據，解決密碼問題能減少高達99.9%的身份驗證風險。面對此挑戰，SAMURAI Key不僅提供了解決方案，並加入了加密隨身碟和端點檔案加密功能，進一步保護了企業和個人資料。

匯智安全科技總經理鄭嘉信表示，Passkey技術與SAMURAI Key同樣基於FIDO2與Webauthn標準。隨著Passkey的興起，預期將有更多服務開始支援安全金鑰登入。

CEATEC是日本最大消費電子展，於10月17日至10月20日在千葉幕張舉行。匯智安全科技以「強化企業端點安全（Endpoint Security）」為主題，提出電腦遭非法登入與資料外洩的解決方案。企業客戶可以透過伺服器嚴謹控管SAMURAIKey，消除過往日本企業對遺失隨身碟會導致資料外洩的顧慮。日本電波株式會社、全新相機收購canon、KDDI、OMRON、南星海運等都蒞臨攤位觀看動態展示。

匯智安全科技行銷企劃林蓉萱表示：「對於追求更高安全，要求或希望使用非手機登入方法的用戶，SAMURAI Key不僅滿足了他們的基本需求，而且超越了他們的期望，提供了加密保護資料的功能。」

除了參展外，「SAMURAI Key（武士之鑰）」也在日本群眾募資平台推出，12小時就成功達成募資金額，大受好評原因是Samurai key 滿足高端商務人士三個資安需要：一是取代密碼難記與洩漏；二是沒有遺失隨身碟造成資料洩漏的擔憂；三是加密筆電桌機檔案，確保隱私。受到日本人肯定與支持，也為台灣在全球資安的領域攻占一席之地。

鄭嘉信表示，設計Samurai Key之初，匯智安全科技同時將企業管理的資安需要考慮在內，把透過企業伺服器控管功能放入，扭轉了企業對 USB 隨身碟使用將導致資料外洩的擔憂。為進一步服務企業客戶，匯智安全科技可按照企業安全政策與需求進行 OEM 及 ODM 客製。透過整合「加密隨身碟」與「無密碼認證」，提供個人與企業更完整且全面的資安防護。

鄭嘉信補充說明：「不管是零信任，或是FIDO2，無密碼認證金鑰，對於一般使用者來說，都只是新穎的名詞，但卻是迫在眉睫必須解決的事。」匯智安全科技透過創新的技術和解決方案，正為全球資安市場樹立新的標準，並推動資訊安全向前發展。

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