“It's my opinion this shouldn't be sold as it is. To run the Pi anywhere near the performance it is capable of you need to add a heatsink and fan.
Without these it would start thermal throttling while running Chromium not impressed with this out of the box”
“Using it as a desktop pc - general web browsing etc. Works really well, chromium is pretty much a fully functioning desktop browser. Can't really multi task videos with other stuff but otherwise it's good”
“I think you must already know, that it compares extremely well with an earlier desktop computer. I'm hoping to get Gentoo Linux on it in the near future. I found it to be only marginally slower than a dual core AMD 64 bit 2.4 Gig processor running Gentoo Linux.”
“..didnt havd time for full test..the important thing to do before is ro put heat sinks and fan on it..with no heavy tasks i got 37-52 °c..left to test with 4k videos..and other things..im not using it for big projects..for now for iptv..vpn server and pi presents..the big problem for this new model is too much heat..the rest should work fine ..im new with linux and pi..i have a 3b+..and this 4b..both need cooling to work ok..like any computer..the fun is like this cos i used a tall heatsink ..the black one and the fan was touching it..”
