“I bought this to replace my Pi4, which is acting as my Active Directory Domain Controller and Airprint Server. I am waiting for some new cables before I start the setup.
The raspberry Pi just keeps getting better and better.”
“This is my second review of the RP5 that I bought a couple of months ago. I bought the 4GB version thinking that the 8GB was overkill for my purpose, however I now wish I'd bought the 8GB version. The reason is that for the project I am working on I elected to develop in Swift and this pushes you towards using VS Code as the IDE. What I've noticed is that VS Code is pretty responsive to start with but, after maybe a few hours of edit/compile/debug the responsiveness drops off drastically. I used task manager to see what was going on and VS Code was eating over 3.5GB of memory, It starts off at around 1GB but this climbs to over 3.5GB and, if you are running other apps like a web browser, you start use the virtual memory, which means swapping, and the performance goes from perfectly acceptable to very frustrating going on unusable. I don't think this is a RP5 problem at all, I think that VS Code, or developing in Swift under VS Code is incredibly resource hungry and this is what causes the problem. So, if you are planning on this combo then I would recommend the 8GB version..”
“Very good raspberry pi, its around 3 times faster than the pi 4 which is crazy too.
I'm currently using mine to run an android tv 14 which is impressive as it can play 4k60 videos without any struggle.
Only thing I would say is that you should probably get a cooler for it for like £2 off of aliexpress and it'll be fine!”
