The Raspberry Pi 400 Teardown

I take apart the Raspberry Pi 400 and see what it's made of.

#RaspberryPi #Pi400

Contents:

00:00 - Intro to the Pi 400
01:34 - Cracking the case
02:56 - Looking inside
04:04 - Heatsink and main board
05:26 - Bottom of the main board
06:16 - Reassembly and naming
07:15 - Bloopers

[mhammadalloush]

Finally someone made a modern day Commodore 64 style computer.

[whatdamath]

This looks great, but they should have wrapped a wifi antenna cables around the keyboard like it's done in laptops (usually around the screen) to increase the reception area. Built in wifi is still the Achilles's heel of all of the Pis I've used

[MarkEmeryPhotography]

What I love about the module inside is that all the ports are on the same edge. I can see a few hardware hackers getting these and removing the case and keyboard.

[buffteethr]

This perfect for the average home user. It has been frustrating "arguing" with family about them buying $500-$1000 computers to browse the web, watch videos, use Word and Excel.

[usethefooorce]

6:40 Nope, the 400 number is not an homage to the Amiga 500. It's an homage to the Acorn Archimedes 400 series, which was the power user version of the Archimedes (the low-end version was the 300 series). All the Raspberry Pi names pay homage to early Acorn computers (the BBC Model A, Model B, Archimedes, etc.). The ARM processor was originally the Acorn RISC Machine CPU -- the first 32-bit desktop RISC processor, released with the Acorn Archimedes. The acronym was later renamed to Advanced RISC Machine.

[chuckduey]

Thanks, Jeff, your video of how to get the keyboard off was very helpful. This work for the Raspberry PI keyboard as well. This comes in handy if you need to switch the keyboard language or have a damaged keyboard. The Pi keyboard and the Pi 400 keyboards are compatible. Also your selection of the tool to pop the seams on the keyboard is spot on. I have not found a better tool.

[benzeman]

"Until next time, I'm Jeff Geerling" - so next time you'll be someone else?!

[Mmmm_tea]

they have all that space but still went with those crappy tiny HDMI sockets!

could be design philosophy? make everything tiny then you notice the gpio header ok maybe not! they probably just did it to save money so they didn't have to stock regular hdmis

[pathoslp]

Definitely buying this for my little brother for Christmas. He’s a littler tinkerer so he’ll love it.

[harshbarj]

Have to say, I REALLY want to see one of these with 8G of ram and an integrated M.2 sata port. Perhaps even with a beefed up SOC of 2Ghz+. I love these little low powered computers for running things during power outages, which happen often in my area. While my neighbors are running around with candles I have a powerbank with a led camping light and a ARM Chromebook running Ubuntu tethered to my phone. Priorities I guess ;-) .

[Sebbl]

I wonder why they didn’t use the new compute module. With that, it would be upgradable in the future.

[ZeeshanMuhammadX]

I noticed this pop up in my Google News feed and I was curious about its innards. Your video sated my curiosity and I liked the cheeky humour / skits mixed into the overall "box opening" video. Good job on making this video Jeff and keep it up! :)

[KSchawacker]

GAME CHANGER! For real. Tech only gets more compact and lightweight in time. This could be the first of a new breed of systems geared towards coding professionals and engineers of all kinds. Love it!

[MrKarlyboy]

wow super super slick design, the build pi's 10 minutes from where I live in West UK (Southern Wales). Quality engineering at a great price.

[jumbleblue]

Thank you for this. Really well done review, answers all my questions, looks up chips, etc. Many many small details you do so well for conveying the picture of this device.

[Wythaneye]

Thanks for the run-through. I've been curious about what's inside, but leery about disassembling my shiny new Pi 400. I'm glad we have other people on Youtube to do it for us.

[rednassie]

I did not know this was a thing, glad to see someone already opening it

[Wythaneye]

FYI, if you're looking for a Pi in 2022, the Pi 400 is still available at a non-gouged price point. I just received my Pi 400 kit yesterday (Mar 2022) and I paid $100, same as retail when they were released.

[IamTheHolypumpkin]

I'm always amazed how powerful already the regular Raspberry Pi4 Model B is.
An even better Pi wow!

[achannelhasnoname]

Looks really neat! I'm surprised they didn't just put a normal Pi 4 in there, I guess they are expecting to sell enough units to make up for the investment of a new PCB design.