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 ...

A couple of decades ago, a computer was considered a luxury. Today, interacting with computers is an essential part of life. In fact, it has become increasingly difficult to live without access to a ...

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 ...

Here are a few ways the Raspberry Pi outperforms desktops and laptops, from tiny power draw to safe sandboxes for ambitious ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the more exciting prospects upon receiving one of the earliest Raspberry Pi boards back in 2012 was that it was a fully-functional desktop computer in the palm of your hand. In those far-off ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. If you’re looking for a bargain computer, they won’t come ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The newest Raspberry Pi 400 almost-all-in-one computer is very, very slick. Fitting in the size of a small portable keyboard, it’s got a Pi 4 processor of the 20% speedier 1.8 GHz variety, 4 GB of RAM ...