“This is the first Raspberry Pi model that can be used as a "daily driver" computer without feeling slow. It's a real desktop class computer in a tiny board for a reasonable price. It even works great for game emulation. And it has the best software ecosystem of any SBC. Definitely five stars. :-)”
“You know what you’re getting here! Nice to have a power button on board now too since the cable versions didn’t work too well with Pi 4. Just wish the power connection could go near the back to sit it neat. When you use it for projects that won’t need the display outputs. Great regardless of that though”
“Really fast. Only issue I have is when screen blanking is enabled the pi seems to hang up. The cursur is on the screen, moves round. but nothing else”
“The fastest version of the Pi family yet! The faster memory card interface is especially nice. I don't like that it no longer has a 3.5mm audio jack. To output separate audio, you'll need an HDMI splitter that extracts the digital audio feed and converts to analog. Not hard to do, but a bother.”
“Very pleased with the latest version of the Raspberry Pi. Having owned several V3 and v4s, the experience is noticeabley improved, with much faster speeds running my own scripts. I run the pi headless, so can't comment on desktop performance, but the performance through an SSH terminal is much faster. Only gripe is that python seems to be a little more locked down in the latest OS, making it a little harder to install modules. This probably says more about my lack of skills than anything else, but it did mean that I had to adapt how I would normally get modules via pip.”
