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It is astonishing! It's especially impressive when you realize that the motherboard itself is so small that most of the keyboard interior is basically empty space [0].

[0]: https://assets.raspberrypi.com/static/25912715ba437c32c56757...

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I'll be hanging around until someone mods more PIs into it.

Thinking of the old Slashdot joke but with a twist. Imagine a Beowulf Cluster inside your keyboard.

This might be (relatively) easily achieved by networking a couple of Raspberry Pi Zero 2's together under the Pi 500+ keyboard shell.

That's incredible!

For a comparison, the "similar" computer from 2006 [0] had a maximum configuration of 4xCPU @ 1 GHz and 8GB of RAM. It weighed 60 lb (27 kg) and looked like this:

https://imgur.com/fc7BWTc

But Raspberry Pi 500+ has already 2.4GHz quad-core ARM64 CPU and 16GB RAM.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Tezro

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