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Absolutely wonderful! This is getting ever more close to the joy of the original home computers, and a great setup for a kid to start with especially with the book provided. The RPi4 is also an impressive bit of kit. Bravo RPi foundation!


I've ordered one, it arrives tomorrow, and until I read your comment I had overlooked the book.

When I was younger, I was lucky enough to have an Amiga Commodore 500+, and I read all the included literature cover to cover, over and over again. I have a lot to thank those manuals for!

EDIT: It's available for free online as a PDF, https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/books/beginners-guide-4th-ed


Yes the form factor reminds me of my first computer, a Commodore 64.


They should offer the case/keys in more colors. I have the black keyboard and it's nice beyond anything I could expect at that price range.

Anyway, if they make the board available separately, there can be a huge ecosystem of interesting cases for it.




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