“Ordered as soon as the announcement came out and I realised that unfettered ethernet access and a load more ram were available. Pimoroni had it on my doorstep the following morning, excellent service as always.”
“Raspberry Pi 4 is what I wanted PI 3 B+ to be. Using it as a desktop replacement is a breeze for me. Ability to play 720p or 1080p videos via VLC works like on my MacBook.
It can get toasty when playing video on youtube but small fan fixed thermal issues for me.
Now I am waiting for nice pi4 compatible case with active cooling and USB boot which I am sure is coming soon.”
“(Purchased 4GB version) This is a significant upgrade to the Raspberry Pi and performance is really impressive. Not sure about the need for two HDMI ports but as I only use the Pi headless i'll pass on judgement. It will be an impressive NAS / webserver when the firmware is updated to allow booting from USB like the previous Pis can. The only issue so far is the heat. This device gets very hot very quickly. I also purchased a Raspberry Pi4 heatsink (large) and I would suggest anyone buying a Pi4 does the same as it takes quite a few degrees off the CPU. Even so, if the Pi4 has been given a bit of a workout the heatsink can get almost too hot to touch, so be careful. When the new cases are available I can see there could be over-heating and throttling problems, as without any airflow through the new case I can envisage the heat build-up to be too much even with a large heatsink. Unless you need the extra RAM, faster read / write speeds or true gigabit ethernet the Pi3B+ is still a good buy however the Pi 4B is a seriously good piece of kit for the price.”
“Brilliant, absolutely capable of being a desktop and a lot of other things to. Checked out various benchmarks and it wasn't always at the bottom ! Only thing (so far) to be aware of, it gets HOT. very quickly it was over 70 deg just playing 4k video. I will get a fan ASAP”
