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 ...

Before smartphones and tablets, and even before Palm Pilot, the Palm Pilot and Apple Newton, HP was experimenting with a different kind of pocket-sized computer: the palmtop PC. In 1991, the company ...

Every time a new Raspberry Pi mini PC is launched the question is always asked whether the tiny computer is capable of replacing a more powerful and much larger ” desktop PC”. Now with the launch of ...

Raspberry Pi has unveiled the 500+, a complete desktop computer priced at $200 that merges modern computing power with design elements inspired by 1980s home computers. The all-in-one system ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation made a splash in the mini PC scene with the Raspberry Pi, a tiny and affordable board that lends itself to all kinds of do-it-yourself (DIY) projects. Perhaps in a bid to ...

In the eight and a bit years since the first model launched, the Raspberry Pi has traditionally been sold as a modular computer. You buy the board separately, attach your own peripherals, insert an SD ...

Build your own under-$100 desktop Linux PC with Raspberry Pi; just don’t expect it to be a true PC Premier Farnell, a distributor of Raspberry Pi, has created a kit that turns Raspberry Pi into a full ...

Raspberry Pi was originally aimed at students and hobbyists, and it can now function as a Linux computer. And if support for Microsoft’s Windows 10 desktop OS is added to the latest Raspberry Pi 3, it ...

The Pi 400 isn’t a powerful desktop PC—but it is a desktop PC, for $100 or less. Late Friday afternoon, I got an exciting SMS notification—my review sample of the new Raspberry Pi 400 had arrived. I ...

One of the selling points of the Raspberry Pi 5 (released in October 2023) is that it was fast enough and had enough memory to be a credible general-purpose desktop PC, if not an especially fast one.

The Raspberry Pi wasn’t always supposed to be a cheap PC replacement. When the first version of this miniature computer arrived in 2012, it didn’t yet have its own version of the Linux operating ...