British charity hopes to get ultra-low-cost Linux computers into hands of children in both the developed and developing world. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family ...

The Raspberry Pi 500 is a compact desktop computer that combines a 2.4 GHz Broadcom BC2712 quad-core ARM Cortex-A76 processor, 8GB of LPDDR4x-4267 memory, and support for WiFi 5, Bluetooth 5.0, and ...

The Raspberry Pi 500 gains the performance improvements of the new Raspberry Pi 5 microcomputer. The Raspberry Pi 500 gains the performance improvements of the new Raspberry Pi 5 microcomputer. is a ...

The new model is two or three times faster than its 4-year-old predecessor. And it includes the Raspberry Pi Foundation's first in-house chip. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

What if you could build a laptop that’s not only repairable but also endlessly upgradeable? In this breakdown, Jeff Geerling walks through how the Argon 40 OneUp, a modular laptop powered by the ...

Laptop docks have been around for more than a decade, with most marketed as ways to use a smartphone as a pseudo-laptop by interacting with your mobile apps on a bigger screen and a full-sized ...

A Raspberry Pi can be many things, including a desktop computer. While you're probably not meant to purchase one with the intention of it replacing your main PC, that doesn't mean people don't try. A ...

The Raspberry Pi 500+ is most of a Raspberry Pi 5 Model B 16GB that’s been squeezed into a keyboard case, with fancy mechanical key switches and some fetching RGB lighting. It’s fair to ask whether ...

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts looking for an easy way to convert a Raspberry Pi 4 mini PC into a laptop might be interested CrowPi L. The latest creation from the engineers and designers that created the ...

The respected computer scientists Edsgar Dijkstra once remarked that “computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” Even so, nifty computing devices like the ...

For years, Raspberry Pi — the world’s most innovative tiny computer — has turned the tech world on its head. This plug-and-play computer isn’t much larger than a credit card and fits easily in your ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has hit rock bottom. After years of working to lower the cost of hobbyist and educational computing, founder Eben Upton says it can go no further: At just US$5 its latest ...