“The 8GB RPi 4 is now has enough grunt to be deployed as a hypervisor for virtual machines on shared storage (TrueNAS). I am running a group of five as QEMU / KVM hypervisors to host all my personal services (de-googling my life amongst other things). The reason I wanted to use Pi's is the low power draw and total silence. People often use old enterprise gear for 'home labs' but this is a huge cost in electricity even if you get the gear for a very low price.”
“The Pi 4 (8GB model) is an amazing piece of kit. I'm a web developer, and the Pi is now powerful enough for me to perform the majority of my work on it, meaning my power consumption has dropped significantly. It can get a bit laggy when it's being hammered, and I still have to switch back to my main PC for intensive tasks like photo editing, but for the most part I'm Pi based now... Plus it boots up in seconds and is totally silent!”
“Simply amazing for the price! I have been using it for the last few weeks to develop software and it will host PyCharm no problems. I'm having compatibility issues with .net (Rider and VSCode) applications, so a bit disappointed there, but capacity wise, the 8GB is more than enough to keep the the IDE running smoothly. Superb bit of kit!”
“I dindt like the Pi 400 as it sounds like a good idea with the keyboard and all but it doesnt have an audio out 3.5mm socket so not much good as a PC replacement if your monitor doesnt have HDMI sound like me so I sold it on Ebay and got this Pi 4 B 8GB which seems to be running ubuntu nicely, runs videos OK in 1080p - 4k is obviously a bit of a stretch, overall well pleased so far.”
