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The Raspberry Pi 500 Plus is available now with a $110 price bump over last year’s model.
The Solid-State Drive (SSD) is a great upgrade over the hard disc drive (HDD). It is comparatively faster and is one of the best ways to increase a system’s performance. However, some users have reported that Windows 11 or Windows 10 is not recognizing ...
Those premium features include a mechanical keyboard with user-replaceable keycaps and RGB backlit keys. And while it has the same quad-core ARM Cortex-A76 processor as the Raspberry Pi 500, the new 500+ model has 16GB of LPDDR4x-4267 RAM (twice as much as the cheaper model), and an integrated M.2 2280 socket that comes with a 256GB SSD by default.
The computer is currently available to purchase from the usual suspects like CanaKit and Micro Center, and generally starts at $200, twice the price of the Pi 500. Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton's blog post about the 500+ says that the upgraded version of the computer has been in the works since the regular 500 was released last year.