If you know anyone with a 3£ printer near by. And some time with a craft knife.
Would be pretty darn easy to cut the slot in the case. And print a plastic cover that clips in.
As you said plenty on line to add your own M2 and the power circuits to support it.
Likely will be more soon with the plus to look at.
Personally. I have a 40p and a 500 so will wait a few months and see what happens. But I will likely go for that keyboard eventually.
400 and 500 case are identical E. It is not the space. But the fact that opening the case is not considered a user task.
The 500plus has bolts to open the case rather then the having to deal with breakable clips. The 400 and 500 case need a little more width and completelly new injection moulding to do that.
As I made clear in my post. What you and I are willing to do. Vs what a corporation is willing to sell as maintainable are different.SSD and storage in general has consumer expected requirement to be replaceable. Hence why every laptop etc has easy covers for upgrade.
Doing that requires a whole new case with now injection moulding machines and factory lines etc.
shows what they were up to when they left the M2 slot out of the original Pi 500. I’m sure it helps.
Likely the issue was that the board layout as is. Did not allow for the current 400 case to take the M2 slot in a way that users could have easy access.
While you and Def I. May not worry about having to unclip the case. For a company selling mainly as an educational product. (Dispite that no longer being their main market).
The cost and time for case mods of that level. Likely made this option much more logical.
Many guess something like this was the next stage. Keyboard is a real nice suprise though.
Considering the same. Would love to hear from others who have tried it.
The lack of community support and OS knowledge is my main worry. So honestly if any knowledge exists here. Opening a new community to share may be the best option.