“Proper low end desktop performance from such a small device, its truly amazing how much has been packed into this board for the money. The only Achilles heel is the SD card performance that isn't really the pi's fault but something to bear in mind so using the super fast usb 3 ports for storage may be a better option.
It does run hot when under full load but there are many cases and heatsinks that offset this modern issue all processors suffer from.”
“First pi i've ever used and it is crazy powerful for such a tiny thing. The FLIRC case gets warm mind you so i wouldn't use it without some sort of heatsink. Quake 1 and Quake 3 on raspbian are great although i really got it for evaluating it as a device for porting our windows software to, however as of 2019/10/08 windows 10 iot is not available yet.”
“won't trigger my 1920x1080 Acer LCD screens (my pi 2's and banana pi's work fine).
runs *really* hot even idling: 70C.
added copper heatsink and 10k RPM mini fan to drag temp to 44C at idle. silent was better!
video core vi does fast h264 encoding and true gigabit Ethernet is nice but headless is no good for me. I have 9 pi-2's as GPU compute servers, this pi-4 is too expensive for that arrgt.”
“This is the 2nd model I've bought, the first being the 2 model B. On this one the Wifi and Bluetooth is excellent.
I'm a professional Linux System Administrator building BT openreach infrastructure. I wanted this to do some electronics .i.e control a robot etc.. My only criticism is the OS I would have liked it to mirror CentOS/RedHat especially the networking which I spent hours trying to get to work, professionally I do this regulary.”
“The Pi 4 is a significant step up in performance, and hence suitability for more intensive tasks. It maintains all the virtues of the Pi but with more 'oomph'!
The new CPU runs hotter than previous versions, and I'd recommend using some means to dissipate the extra heat in high-stress usage and\or poorly ventilated environments.”
