What monitor for Raspberry PI 400

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Hello all,

For years I've had laptops so have never thought of a monitor but my long suffering poor old laptop has a screen bleed which is getting slowly worse. I thought about a Rasberry PI but will it need a certain type of monitor or is it just a case of getting the right lead ?

Thanks all
 
The Pi will have one or two HDMI ports so any monitor with one of them :)
 
As above they usually have a HDMI port, so if you have hdmi input it should be fine.
 
The current Pi4 B has 2 mini HDMI ports so would need a mini to full size cable or adaptor. The blurb says a display port but cant recall one on mine, its tucked in the back of a unit on audio streaming duties. I hadnt realised that they could be a desktop pc
 
bear in mint the Pi's performance is woeful and pretty much only runs beards n sandals v2
 
Thanks everyone, my current PC is 10 years plus old running a Lite Linux so Beard and Sandals v2 ( in my case big beard and Wellies) should be fine.
 
out of curiosity I had a little research and unless you like and are knowledgable in software the Pi seems to be hard work with people writing or inserting code to get performance. With the basic OS it uses CHromium as a web browser thats not recognised by a lot of sites.
I have my Pi for airplaying music to the hifi Amp - I would prefer to use a "connect" service but Amazon doesnt allow this so Airplay has to do - it does a fine job of this given I already had the DAC but a used Bluesound Node is just as cheap and arguably does a better job. Set up was a PITA as the Pi had been revised and none of the software was aware and had to update, as its all open source some did it in days soe took months.
 
AgentOrange76 said:
out of curiosity I had a little research and unless you like and are knowledgable in software the Pi seems to be hard work with people writing or inserting code to get performance. With the basic OS it uses CHromium as a web browser thats not recognised by a lot of sites.
I have my Pi for airplaying music to the hifi Amp - I would prefer to use a "connect" service but Amazon doesnt allow this so Airplay has to do - it does a fine job of this given I already had the DAC but a used Bluesound Node is just as cheap and arguably does a better job. Set up was a PITA as the Pi had been revised and none of the software was aware and had to update, as its all open source some did it in days soe took months.
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this is what the pi's started out as being things to tinker with for buttones and to get the younger generations to understand code but now they seem to have morphed a bit into running hokey custom things , i am on a few digital music facebook forums and loads of people do similar to you.
 
The monitor you choose will depend on which PI you buy - the PI 4 can cope with up to 4K, so it's very much up to you. If you can, I'd suggest doing more research on this to see if it's something that will be good for you.
 
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To be fair rather than Pi's look at a used HP T630 Terminal thats what i use as a super low power device for all these things.
 
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