Mine is still in the box, as sorting out my study to run all of my computers and consoles in. It came following day and like I said it is still in the box. My very first computer Sinclair ZX81 was touch sensitive keyboard, used to scare ourselves silly with a game called monster maze. Got into basic programming plugged into a portable black and white TV, then years later I bought three Acorn Electrons the daughter of the BBC computer, which housed a very loud solid QWERTY keyboard. The reason why I had three, was because one had a word processor port on the back, for doing CV writing documents and the like.
The point I’m trying to make is to me it makes sense having a keyboard attached to the PI without having it weighed down as the normal PI would suddenly lift up, if you had a really heavy USB lead or HDMI lead plugged in. The other Acorn Electron I still have to this day, could play all the games available, where as the third one couldn’t but was great for basic programming. The Raspberry PI is a nostalgia tool, which you can program to do all sorts of things from robots to operating your entire home. It teaches us all about computing, plus the fact so many OSES available in the ARM format now, which is nice to see and yes you could just use it for emails, writing on forums, YouTube etc. With 4GB of ram in a computer still the size of a credit card, I’m glad they give you choice of just a plain PI or this one with the keyboard. Plus I’m proud to say it’s mad in the UK instead of China. 