“This is an excellent device and is the fourth Pi I've had over the years. This one acts as a Kodi player (using LibreElec) for the frankly insane number of movies we've collected over the years. My previous media player couldn't handle 4K but this Pi does it and does it well.
There is a heck of a lot of heat put out when it does play a 2 hour 4K movie, and the heatsink goes some way to abating this, but not enough for my liking unfortunately.”
“A dream machine, in a way that I finally can put my noisy living room PC box aside. Raspberry has enough power to act as my everyday computer, this while 'crunching' numbers in seti@home project 24/7. It looks good too in a plastic transparent freezer box... I highly recommend!”
“First unit I got would not boot. Contacted Pimoroni and sent it back. It tested bad so they sent me a new one. The whole process was pretty smooth. New one arrived, threw my SD card in it and it booted right up. Works great so far, working on a possible desktop replacement for my work computer.”
“Coming from the Raspberry Pi Zero W, this was an absolute pleasure. Like sipping a fine wine only to be gifted a crate.
Though not the option that will suit everyone, this version was an absolute must for myself. The Gigabit Ethernet port and plentiful USB IO is good for a small file server or testing box.I currently have mine running as an access point and testing arena for Web-enabled projects, discord bots and a personal Minetest Server.
I don't need to write pages and pages as it has almost all been said before, this is one small step for my network and one giant leap in my project scope.
Just do yourself one favour, get a cooling case and get to know it before you deploy the Pi in a hard to reach location. Test twice, deploy once.”
