“Best Pi yet? For my "second household pc (kitchen)" yes! This one boots fast, and best of all can cope with full e mail, most office functions, and cope with 3d design (Tinkercad), and even slicing for the printer afterwards.
I do have a reservation. More to the way the machine is sold? PLEASE could we have a list of things needed for say; hobby use, and Home computing? In the latter saying a USB sound card will probably be needed; hobbyists may not require sound output?
I ordered the required dongle, from Pi Hut, plugged it in, and all was well. So much so we now have 2 RPi5 in the house.”
“I would consider Raspbian's latest version to be one of the most exceptional ones yet. It functions exactly as intended and can be regarded as a nearly ideal piece of hardware.”
“Every thing you could want from a raspi. Obviously the price is far away from the original Pi ethos but still well below most other comparable offerings”
“Very good product. Surprised of its capabilities. Note that it comes with the heat sink and fan if u order the official case. So u don't have to buy an external heat sink. The fan almost doesn't provide any noise. I am running python apis on it and it is totally working fine without any external heat sinks apart from the one coming from the official case. Case also looks cute and it's very easy to remove and attach the case.”
“I bought this to replace my Pi3B that runs Home Assistant. While the 5 is overkill for Home Assistant the ability to boot from USB SSD out of the box was what I wanted plus a degree of future proofing. HA is now super responsive and I can start thinking about local voice control knowing that the hardware will easily be capable.”
