“the packaging of the Raspberry Pi 4 feels ...cheap. It is essentially a bare board in a flimsy tiny box without any antistatic sleeve nor any protection or cables at all. I didn't expect flashy packaging, but some basic protection should be given. It didn't feel that the board was protected at all. Luckily after connecting it worked. Interestingly, my 2K monitor was recognised at 4K resolution (!?). However, the mouse movement was very laggy. After switching it to its native resolution all started to work as speedy as expected.
BTW, the processor gets noticeably warm even without any significant load. Hopefully this is not an indication of any troubles, but may require heatsink, which is not what I wanted to use. Time will tell.
The initial minutes after booting it up to Linux were positive. More testing should follow to properly evaluate the product. However, for that money you can't get wrong with it.”
“I am pleased with the pi4, though disappointed with the change of connectors. I had recently purchased new ps my pi3's and now I need to do it again with the usb-c. Also the micro hdmi forced me to order yet more adapters. Perhaps a little checking on your part and some adapters would provide good will and future customers.
Warren Young”
“The Pi 4 is much better in every way than the models that came before. USB and ethernet are now connected to the SoC by a PCI Express link and can realise much faster speeds, full USB3 and full Gigabit. I/O on the SD card seems very much faster too and storage intensive activities like upgrading all the Raspbian packages seem 10x faster. All in all, a much more responsive little system especially if its being used as a desktop.
The SoC runs a little on the warm side. With a small passive heatsink on mine but otherwise uncovered, it idles at ~50℃. If I put it inside an official case, it idles at ~70℃. Loading all four cores pushes it up above 80℃ at which point throttling kicks in. If you want to push one of these hard, you'll need more substantial cooling.”
“the pi 4 is faster than pi 3 pity about needing a new case I adapted a pi 3 case but keep the lid off when the pi is on as it gets much hotter than pi 3.
I probably need to get a small fan but will wait until the case designs catch up.
(boot issue signal via hdmi freezes start up
use boot config.txt uncomment (hdmi_safe=1) then it works for me )”
