I had hoped that the Pi500 would be a cure for the spaghetti. Unfortunately this proved not to be the case. If you power your monitor with it then you will run four separate cables out of the back of your desktop device. Five if you use Ethernet. If you don't power the monitor with it then it reduces to 3 or 4 cables and two power adapters. You could reduce this with a BT mouse.Now, if you're OK with a drive and cable sticking out of the back of the Pi, all of this does not matter. I dislike all the spaghetti that goes along with it and the extra $2 + vat to avoid it is more than worth it. So given the choice I'll pay the extra, every time as it does not make sense otherwise.
A Pi 5 can be moved out of sight behind the monitor and short cables used. If you use a keyboard with an internal USB hub (like the Raspberry Pi one) then you can run a single cable to behind the monitor. Or none with BT.
I should have known before because I have the 400, but something about powering the monitor from the Pi did actually give me hope until I thought it through.
Statistics: Posted by andrew_pi — Thu Jan 02, 2025 7:33 pm