The ultimate all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500+ on sale now at $200
Meet the newest member of our family of all-in-one PCs: Raspberry Pi 500+. It’s a complete desktop computer, a love letter to the machines of our childhoods, and our most polished product yet.
Raspberry Pi 500+ boasts a high-quality mechanical keyboard with removable keycaps and individually addressable RGB LEDs, an internal M.2 socket pre-fitted with a 256GB Raspberry Pi SSD, and 16GB of RAM. Read on for the full story, or skip straight to the Raspberry Pi 500+ product page to order yours.
Raspberry Pi 500+ is built on the Raspberry Pi 5 platform, featuring a 2.4GHz quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 CPU, dual 4k display output, dual-band Wi-Fi and much more, and is priced at $200. It is also available in a $220 Desktop Kit, which adds:
- A Raspberry Pi Mouse
- A Raspberry Pi 27W USB-C Power Supply
- A 2m micro HDMI to HDMI cable
- A copy of the Raspberry Pi Beginner’s Guide, 5th Edition
This is just a tribute, you’ve got to believe me
Many of us, like many of you, are children of the 1980s home computer revolution. When we’re designing new Raspberry Pi products, we naturally look back to the computers of our childhoods: the tastefully beige BBC Micro, the Sinclair Spectrum with its rubber keyboard, the Commodore 64 “breadbin”, or the grandfather of them all, the Apple II. The original Raspberry Pi was a worthy successor to these devices despite lacking a case and a keyboard, but we always had an ambition to build something more complete — more finished — for our education and hobbyist customers.
In the autumn of 2020, we launched Raspberry Pi 400, our first all-in-one PC: the same chipset as Raspberry Pi 4, with 4GB of RAM, packaged inside a compact membrane keyboard. Raspberry Pi 400 was hugely popular with hobbyists, and thousands were distributed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation under its Pi Drop programme, to be used by children studying from home during the pandemic.
When we launched Raspberry Pi 400’s successor, Raspberry Pi 500, last year, eagle-eyed observers noticed some unpopulated sections of the PCB (notably the M.2 socket and supporting circuitry) and wondered if another product was in the works. That product is Raspberry Pi 500+, which turns every aspect of the all-in-one PC concept up to eleven.
Switches are key
The most obvious physical difference between Raspberry Pi 500+ and 500 is the keyboard. Each key rests on a Gateron KS-33 Blue switch with a custom RAL 7001 Silver Grey stem, giving a satisfying sound and feel when pressed. Individually addressable RGB LEDs provide programmable backlighting, and with an RP2040 running QMK as the controller, a Doom port to the keyboard itself is surely just a matter of time. Each custom-designed low-profile keycap is spray painted and then laser etched to allow the backlight to shine through the legend.
For those of you who prefer taller (or just different) keys, Raspberry Pi 500+ is compatible with most aftermarket keycap sets. We provide a key puller to simplify the process of removing the standard keys.
Solid state
Raspberry Pi 500+ shares the same basic internals as Raspberry Pi 500, but we’ve fitted the M.2 socket and supporting circuitry, and added a 256GB Raspberry Pi SSD with Raspberry Pi OS preinstalled. If you need more storage capacity, or want to install a different PCI Express peripheral, the internal bay can accommodate any 2280-format (80mm long) M.2 board. To provide access to the bay, the case is designed to be (carefully) opened, and we include a tool in the package to help you do this.
If you’ve installed something else in the bay, or want to quickly switch operating systems, Raspberry Pi 500+ still supports booting from SD card, or from external USB SSDs.
Happy memories
To support the heaviest workloads, Raspberry Pi 500+ comes with 16GB of LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM. It’s the most memory we’ve ever fitted to a Raspberry Pi product, but we’re sure you’ll find a use for it. Indeed, uptake of the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 has taken us by surprise since its launch in January, with people using them as build servers, to run computational fluid dynamics and large language models, or simply to keep truly enormous numbers of browser tabs open at one time.
Credits
Major product launches like Raspberry Pi 500+ are whole-team efforts: pretty much everyone here at Raspberry Pi has contributed to the project. Particular credit is due to John Cowan-Hughes, for the industrial design, and to Simon Martin and Chris Martin, for the electronic design and production engineering. Mechanical keyboards are a new technology for us, and Simon and Chris have the scars (and the air miles) to show for it.
So, there you have it: the ultimate Raspberry Pi all-in-one PC, and hopefully a fitting tribute and successor to the home computers that started it all. It’s already a fixture on most of our desks here at Pi Towers, and we’re sure it will look just perfect on yours too.
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Charlie
Awesome :-)
Masafumi Ohta
Congrats, Chris and Simon! and thanks for your great work.
Anders
Wow, this ticks a few more boxes for sure, nicely timed to with the season approaching!
Ryan Brown
I am not sure I am going to be able to resist buying this, but I have to admit I am not a fan of RGB lighting. What sort of control do you have over the lights in the keyboard?
Raspberry Pi Staff Eben Upton — post author
Don’t worry – you can turn them off (as I do about 80% of the time).
ludovic frérot
you have listened people requirements. better keyboard, integrated pcie drive ( that should be the default to the PI too btw) and plenty of good and fast memory! I saw benchmarks and without overclocking this device is already faster than the fastest single board cousin. very good job!
Something I would have found more sustainable though is to possibility to actually change the CM module and not have to buy a new keyboard and pc when the next raspberry pi 6 will come (considering the power consumption remains the same )
amazing job. the gear looks stunning!
Duderino
LIstened to the requirements? The NVME requirement was already clear and planned when they did the Pi500 as the board was ready for it, they just didn’t put a few components on there. So youd have to buy the 500+ if you can not figure out which and solder them on yourself.
Jacob
Will there be a version with a Nordic keyboard?
Jack H.
How hard is it going to be to desolder all those blue switches and replace them with red? I am *not* a fan of clicky.
James Hughes
It’s possible but we have never tried it.
Esbeeb
I would personally prefer brown switches, not blue. Red is also better than blue, IMHO. But even with blue switches, the keyboard is a big step up from the 500.
ludovic frérot
The switches are not hot swappable I guess … You are right the blue are heavy switches , according to the Gateron web site 65g operating force that could be not the best choice for kids. But I see they have a custom design maybe they also have different caracteristics ( the stem is grey and not blue.. did they change the spring inside for a lighter version? )
Anders
I decided I don’t need it, don’t want it , already have my Rapsberry Pi quota.
2 minutes later I’ve ordered one. An emotional purchase for sure because I am of that personal computer revolution generation and I moaned about the RAM and SSD when the 500 appeared.
Thanks for listening Pi people!
Raspberry Pi Staff Eben Upton — post author
You’re most welcome. I was a big believer in/advocate for this product during development, and it’s turned out better than I could have hoped.
John Rain
First, why do you still insist on mini-HDMI? They are inferior for physical connection and not as readily available and more expensive. The advantage of being smaller should be a last resort in your designs, and you don’t seem to worry about using USB A connectors instead on USB C to save space. On the normal “B” boards, put one regular HDMI and one mini-HDMI – it will fit! On the keyboard units, put two regular HDMI ports.
Maybe you can release a 500++ or 501+ with HDMI, one USB C and no SSD installed, allowing us to put the size we want. Hell, add a SATA connector and SO-DIMM slot, if possible. That would be a very nice computer for hobbyists and also to allow young minds to learn about upgrading a computer.
Stephen
I think you mean Micro HDMI not Mini HDMI. (The Pi Zero series use Mini HDMI, the Pi 4, 5, 400 and 500 use Micro HDMI)
Chris Burton
I see some reviews saying “USB-C is strictly for power only” does that mean no rpiboot?
Raspberry Pi Staff Gordon Hollingworth
Hold the power button down when you plug into the host and it’ll go into rpiboot mode
Simon West
Congrats on the launch of yet another fantastic product.
Mattia Adducchio
This is insane!! We only need an official wireless mouse!!
nafanz
I would also be interested to see a branded photo camera and headphones.
W. H. Heydt
I’d argue that the best additional item to with would be a travel-sized trackball. …and wired is just fine.
Phil Atkin
That is a BRILLIANT little computer. Must turn it into a static bat detector ASAP. My Pi 400 sits on my desk detecting and recording bats via an ultrasonic mic and a long USB cable may as well dazzle the poor things with disco lighting.
Indrajit
Absolutely wonderful news! I skipped buying the Pi500 simply because it lacked SSD support and then I had wished that a newer model would come out with a SSD slot, more RAM and perhaps, just perhaps, mechanical keys. The PI500+ has checked all those boxes and more! Can’t resist this one.
Raspberry Pi Staff Eben Upton — post author
Glad to hear we ticked all the boxes. We can’t please all the people all the time, but sometimes we get to please one person once!
Mack
I was hoping there’s a new Pi 500 with built-in SSD when I read about the new NVMe module announced yesterday. Dreams do come true!
But I also dreamt of a Pi 500 with MIPI and support for PoE board…
A Stevens
Brilliant! I don’t need one, but I certainly want one. I started out with a ZX81 (though I was almost too young to remember it), but my first ‘real’ computer was the BBC Master 128, circa 1989. If you’d told me then what we would have now, I wouldn’t have believed it. Must start brushing up my BASIC skills again…
Gordon77
Looks excellent, well done !!
Richard Test Collins
Nice product. :) Good work. I would like one but have too many PC’s at the moment. I have three desks at home and it’s only me here. LoL.
So the obvious follow on question, when will we see an official RPi laptop??? Would it even be possible to make one at a competitive price?
nafanz
This is good news, but please add a Russian keyboard option to your products.
andre
why white again? will you release a black keyboard?
Jeff Geerling
For the keyboard, it would be neat if the Pi Keyboard could be updated to use the new top with an integrated USB 3 hub inside…
And I think a keycap set with the same style, but in Raspberry-Pi-red, might be a neat option. Having that color for accent keys would be pretty nice.
Finally as others mention, having quieter switches as an option would be great (not to muddy up your SKU/inventory count too badly, haha).
ukscone
I need quieter keys as the current ones didn’t pass the WAF at 2am
I get lots of “Do you have to type so loud? It’s the middle of the night”
Sven Harvey
Bet it runs ZeeWolf unlike the Amiga 500+ ;) This machine is gonna get PiMiga’ed relentlessly!
Jagunn
I’m waiting on this layout https://klawiatura.wordpress.com/
crumble
Full size SSD ist nice.
Will the 500+ be cool enough to run ollama?
Wade
I have ollama running on RPI5 w/ 8GB. I little slow, just a little, so I 16GB should run much smoother since some models could be completely in memory now.
Damian
I have a 400, and a 500. In the 400, I’m honoring the retro computers, and running BASIC Engine. And it feels just like a modern version of one of those old computers. It’s just magical to boot it to BASIC, and have it ready to enter code. This 500+ is exactly what I had in mind when I envisioned a modern all-in-one computer that inherits from those old computers. Sadly I already have a 500, but I hope people get this one, and enjoy it, because it looks like a fantastic machine. Kudos!
Thomas
*Please* make an in-between model :)
I’d *love* a Pi 500 that just has the one change of providing the m.2 slot, without everything else driving the cost up.
Galvar
Yes!!!!!!! I hope there is also a kit option.
Raspberry Pi Staff Helen Lynn
There is indeed! There’s a mention of this just below that first photo. I believe these are still making their way to some of our resellers, but you shouldn’t have to wait long.
Anders
There is a kit coming, but not in the assemble-it-yourself sense. The kit version is actually a computer/power adaptor/mouse/book bundle and I think squarely aimed at the coming festive season.
Martin
why only white color?
Ray Allen
White is the signature colour, actually if it was not white I would not buy it. White looks much cleaner, Pi has done a great job with this one. Looks great even without being powered up. Just ordered mine
Malcolm H
I would like s black top, black character keys, red for shift, tab, etc and a red base ie. looking like an Oric Atmos
Helen McCall
This looks like a truly magnificent addition to the RPi range.
I hadn’t been planning to get another Pi anytime soon; but this having the lovely looking mechanical keyboard is very tempting. I think temptation will probably win in this case; though I would be using FnF4 to turn the back lighting off, and would put a 1TB SSD in it.
Nick
This is fantastic news, but if anyone told me the new model got an updated keyboard RGB LEDs would not have been my guess, mainly because it costs more and it draws more power. It’s just the kind of thing you don’t expect after knowing why small things like a power switch or RTC were delayed for so long. :) The Pi 400 looked amazing – great contrast and bigger characters that were really nice not just for environments with lower light levels, but also for people without ideal eyesight. The familiar red-white color scheme looks so good, I was baffled to see it go.
That said, the hardware itself is amazing. It’s a great dat to start watching reviews and… decide whether to get one myself or temper my absurdly strong itch. :) This is an incredible PC now, congrats, it is at last a great little PC for my mom.
Thoughts for the Pi 600:
– keys done similarly to the Pi 400
– comeback of the gorgeous red-white color scheme
– 2 full HDMI ports (there’s room, and people will love it)
– WiFi 6 (it even aligns with the generation: 6/600)
– encode/decode for H.264+H.265 (OBS and Kodi users will go nuts over being able to stream from a Pi)
– option to buy with/without the SSD (some people already have SSDs, since the M.2 is now a lot more common, and being able to use your own without having to buy a smaller one that you won’t use doesn’t feel great)
– maybe consider selling an official Pi SSD case that you can attach on USB as portable storage :)
Gareth Lance Qually
Damn you Raspberry Pi!!! I am trying to cut down on my tech purchases and you go and release this darling. I am never going to be able to rest until I have one.
Ray Allen
Congrats Eben, this takes me back to when I got my VIC-20 and ATARI 600XL, cant wait to try this keyboard. Your design team have made a great thing. Well done. Just ordered mine
Raspberry Pi Staff Eben Upton — post author
Glad you like it. IMO more computers should be called the something-hundred (or something-hundred-plus, or something-hundred-XL).
Matt B
I like the look of the new keyboard. However, will you be selling it without the SSD? I’m not keen on paying for another one when I’ve got larger spares already. Also, as many have said, it’s a shame there is no full-sized HDMI. I’d also add that most people will be using a monitor without in-built speakers so the lack of an audio jack is a pain.
xeny
Many (I acknowledge not all) monitors with HDMI in have an audio jack output. Certainly the cheap/nasty ones I give to people at work if they annoy me do.
RP
I would love to upgrade my Raspberry Pi keyboard for this mechanical one. I would look wonderful below the Christmas tree :)
Peter Green
Cool, should have called it the raspberry pi 540 ;)
How interchangable are the bits between this and the regular pi 500/pi keyboard? can one swap a regular mechanical keyboard top onto this if one doesn’t like the mechanical keyboard?
Meltwater
Wow!
Wheels AND a sandwich.
Aren’t we lucky ones.
Raspberry Pi Staff Eben Upton — post author
A floor polish and a dessert topping!
JPW
😍
Mike Bryant
” or the grandfather of them all, the Apple II”
Or the TRS-80. Announced at same time as the Apple but available in volume first.
Eric Olson
I think the Sol-20 released in 1976 was the first keyboard microcomputer. It also had a great keyboard.
My impression is the Pi 500+ released just in time for Christmas will also make a nice present for an adult. I’m going to give hints to the rest of my family just in case.
Stuart
At ~£175, there’s a lot to like here – at the risk of an exploding number of SKUs, 8GB and 32GB versions would be neat.
I’d also echo other people’s requests for a future revision to hopefully include some or all of:
* Full size HDMI sockets;
* Updated/additional USB-C socket(s) capable of DisplayPort video-out;
* RTC battery/capacitor;
* Power-over-Ethernet support;
* a return of the Pi400 red keyboard base (and a PSU with a red cable?)
nafanz
I’ll add my vote for built-in support for Power-over-Ethernet and DisplayPort (as some Dell monitor models prefer it over HDMI).
horace
awesome! don’t really need but want. :)
so far i have always prefered high-profile keyboards. if i put high-profile keycaps on a 500+, will it feel like a high-profile keyboard, or are the 3mm key travel distance not enough?
DavidF
Oh I so want to buy one of these despite still having 2 Raspberry Pi 5s waiting to be used. This reminds me of the good old days of BBC Micros and the ilk. But with plenty of power and flexibility.
One thing I’d love though is if you could give future consideration to moving to USB-C/Thunderbold to provide power and display, allowing usage of docking monitors, hubs, etc.
Keep up the great work!
Tim Cliffe
This sounds like a great progressive step.
Congratulations to all involved.
My favourite aspect is, the design methodology has made the 500+ more ‘tinkerable’; one of the greatest aspects of Raspberry Pis is they just beg to be tinkered with.
I’m certain this will be a great success, especially for those who may be inherently more reserved when it comes to tinkering with computers; it will help ease them into the fold.
Hail Raspberry Pi. Hail Linux.
CalcProgrammer1
Ooooo it has per-key addressable RGB. I need this. I want to get it supported in OpenRGB.
Paul Newell
Great article, I already purchased the Raspberry Pi 500 last year, I guess 1 more won’t hurt. Problem I have is the article states price, but you don’t sell your products, you recommend Approved Resellers. Why is that the resellers don’t always sell your products at that price presented in the Articles?
James Hughes
All the official resellers will be selling at the headline price, but please take into account local taxes and vagaries in the exchange rate.
Raspberry Pi Staff Eben Upton — post author
And please let us know if you find an Approved Reseller selling above the RRP. They’re good people, but mistakes happen.
W. H. Heydt
Thanks, Eben… Budget will constrain getting one for a bit, but definitely on the “to buy” list.
I don’t care about the LED backlights, though I can see some uses for it. On the whole, this is where the Pi-x00 should be. Been waiting for a mechanical keyboard to come to Pis. So…congrats on a brilliant move.
Harry Hardjono
Sweet!
This is my current setup using Pi5+Logitech mechanical keyboard. I’ll be happy when I can finally combine it into one product! I have only one question: will the keyboard hard case fit? Will hardcase for Keychron K3 fit? What’s the recommendation?
Azure
Still no headphone jack??? Even in an uber premium $200 model with mechanical switches??? What an absolute waste. Genuinely unbelievable. I don’t want mechanical switches or a 256gb ssd built in or any of this, I want a Raspberry Pi all-in-one with a headphone jack for once and it’s hardly an “all-in-one” without it. Why is this so hard?
Alastair Stevens
Headphone.jacks are 19th century technology. You have USB and Bluetooth. Adding a jack would probably add cost for a very small number of users. Hardly any phones even have jack’s any more.
Anders
Maybe it’s not all about you and what you want.
Ken W
Wow, a new raspberry pi, it took me about 5 minutes to decide to get one. I was thinking it wasn’t worth it but with the inclusion on the 256g drive I think it is. Cheers Eben for another fantastic piece of kit . It should arrive in the next couple of days for a bit of evaluation.
Raspberry Pi Staff Eben Upton — post author
Glad you like it. We really did turn things up to eleven this time!
CreatedWithATrackPoint
holy carpets!!! this is amazing! i never expected you guys to release this!!! Also does this mean you guys will now start making 2280 m.2 nvmes? (also please make a black version we didnt get one with the pi 500)
Bart
I really want one but I have to resist the temptation as I have a normal pi 5
spdp
Staggeringly cool and an easy buy from me. Thanks!
Tonda
Cortex-A76? I have this in my 7y old phone, 2018 tech. This is like releasing device with Intel Core 8. gen cpu.
brett
ISO keyboard though.. any chance of an ANSI layout?
Andrew S
Yes, the US variants come with an ANSI keyboard. See the product brief at https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-500-plus/
wlegrand
What would the experience be like using a 24 inch 1080p monitor watching YouTube videos?
Andrew Waite
Raspberry Pi still using these these awful horrible micro HDMI connectors. I would have hoped that a more expensive computer would have reverted to proper full size HDMI connectors. What a disappointment.
Roberto
$200? Dude I can get a 6 times more powerful computer for like $90.
Aardappeltaart
Wow, this looks great. I love clickety-clack and Christmas Trees.
Two questions:
– does the firmware allow the clickety-clack to be used as an USB keyboard? (USB OTG gadget etc)
– sustainability: can I keep the great keyboard and swap motherboard, when the times they are a changin’ and Pi 6 has come.
Margaret Trauth
I just did the inflation calculations. When the Speccy came out in April 1982, it was also $200 in the US. But $200 now is roughly equivalent to $110 back then. Congratulations, guys, this is kind of amazing.
(I will let someone else calculate the inflation on the £125/175 (16k/48k) UK prices.)
Anders
It’s a much bigger change than your $110 – $200
Nuno Sousa
Hi! None of your resellers actually sells the PT (Portuguese) keyboard.
Muhammad Akbar
cool! ♥️
Dennis
This is great!
I have a slightly off-topic question though. Is there any chance you’ll offer the CM 5 Dev Kit either with 16G RAM or without a CM 5 (so we could choose which one to use)?
Tracy Litherland
Now I want one! Was gonna build a retro gaming rig but this might just fit the bill very well.
Liam
I’m glad to see a Japanese keyboard version, but when will it be available to buy? I have no objection to importing it from the U.K. to Japan if I have to, but I can’t find that version for sale anywhere.
Shashank
This is amazing, one kit to rule them all!
Kim Hendrikse
Well done guys! I can see some nice uses for this for sure.
foo
Does the Raspberry Pi OS provide any sort of parental control?
For example: block inappropriate sites and applications; limit usage time; daily routines; etc.
Integration with well-known tools such as Qustodio would be great.
William Noyce
In your mention of the 80’s computers, there is one big one you left out, the Tandy TRS-80 Model I. My Australian high school bought one in 1978. It was there before the ZX80, ZX81, ZX Spectrum, the Commodore 64 and many others. It was released around the same time as the Apple II, I think.
RPi Lover
This fancy keyboard version would be better if it comes with a more powerful SoC in a form of Raspberry Pi 600+
W. H. Heydt
Do you honestly think you can type on the new keyboard too fast for a Pi5-class SoC?
The last time I saw someone able to overrun computer input buffers was when my wife was writing on a heavily loaded (>20 users) bsd 2.9 system running on a VAX 11/750. (She tested at 100 wpm. Are you faster than that?)
Redlegjed
One thing I’m not clear about with this and other Pis with SSD fitted , is how to upgrade the operating system when a new version is released? Previously I’ve just made a new SD card and copied over my own data. Now with a SSD that seems impractical. I hope there will be instructions when the next version of RPi OS comes out
ukscone
The way i’ve done it (think it’s the official way too but not 100% sure) is to boot into an sdcard (or usb drive) with pios on it and use imager to install pios onto the ssd using that then power off, remove the sdcard and power on and it should boot from the ssd
Ben
Here are four options. (same for all Pi5/500 series)
1) Update using the method in the beta section of the forum, it’s how we started testing it. It’s not recommended or supported as it may break things, but it is a method provided and tends to work. Great if you can problem solve
2) If you use Ethernet cable, the press shift during boot and use the network boot version of Pi Imager directy on the Pi, install away (that how I’ve been doing it on my Pi5s now, for any install).
3) usual SD method and PiClone across
4) open it up and use an m.2. USB adaptor.
If you’re after a clean install, just use method 2.
Mathijs
Somewhat offtopic, but love the Tenacious D reference in the article. Well, now I have to buy one.
MarcoB
Why people are forced to buy a 256ssd? a model without it was too difficult to produce?
W. H. Heydt
At a guess… If it came without an installed SSD, anyone wanting to install one would have to open the case. They’ve made that process nearly as easy as possible, but it probably wouldn’t be for the faint of heart. This way, that is not a necessary step, but is still an optional one.
Now considering that for most of my Pis, I have only relatively recently, and with some reluctance, moved from 16GB SD cards to 32GB cards (back in the Pi 1 days, I used to do a full install on a 4GB card), I consider 256GB to be LOTS of room to rattle around in. And, indeed, I’d’ve been perfectly happy if the Pi-500+ had been released with 128GB SSD.
Martin Turner
Received mine earlier today. Fantastic device, love the new keyboard. It makes a great desktop PC