“Bought this RPi-4B to replace and upgrade an RPi-3B which struggled (and that without the VPN). This one's headless on a wired network only, has two 2TB USB drives and two TV tuner USB dongles permanently attached. I have to say it's surpassed my expectations: it's quick, stable, cool and appears to be rather well made. I like the aluminium case I got for it too: stops it getting too toasty.
Only problem so far is the one I have suffers from what appears to be a well-known issue of stalled booting if there's a powered USB hub plugged in ... which in my case there is all the time. I can live with that though: it's been up for over a month and I expect it to stay up for much, much longer.
Great stuff: these are jaw-droppingly flexible ... when's the RPi-5 coming out?!”
“Ideal as a cheap computer for a 3 and 5 year old during the lockdown, powerful enough to run educational websites, videos and the large selection of games available for Raspbian.”
“Once you have thermal issues mitigated properly, I feel like I've finally got an armv8 microcomputer that I am happy with. Always wanted to experiment with software on a different arch, this lets me even compile software at a reasonable speed.
It's really fast and nice, good stuff!”
