Raspberry Pi 500+ Adds a Mechanical Keyboard, More for $200
- Paul Thurrott
- Sep 25, 2025
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Less than a year after it shipped its Pi 500 “computer in a keyboard,” Raspberry Pi is back with a more polished and premium version. The Raspberry Pi 500+ costs $200 and includes a mechanical keyboard, a 256 GB SSD, and 16 GB of LPDDR4X-4267 RAM.
“The Raspberry Pi 500+ is a complete desktop computer, a love letter to the machines of our childhoods, and our most polished product yet,” Eben Upton writes in the announcement post. “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, and a copy of the Raspberry Pi Beginner’s Guide, 5th Edition.”
The Raspberry Pi 500+ is a cool-looking miniature PC, for sure, with a mechanical keyboard with LED lights in which individual keys can be swapped out using aftermarket keycaps and a bundled key puller. It’s the first Raspberry Pi to ship with 16 GB of RAM, but the SSD is also new and explains the unpopulated areas on the original Pi 500’s system board. It is 256 GB in size, has Raspberry Pi OS preinstalled, and can be replaced with any M.2 2880-type SSD drive. You can also install other peripherals in the M.2 slot and boot Raspberry Pi OS off an SD card as with other Pi PCs.
Upton says the Raspberry Pi 500+ is the most polished product the company has made yet.
“We always had an ambition to build something more complete, more finished, for our education and hobbyist customers,” he says. “The Raspberry Pi 500+ turns every aspect of the all-in-one PC concept up to eleven.”