“The Raspberry Pi5 has a PCI express connection and so can make proper use of of an SSD and so I purshased a Raspberry Pi 5 and an SSD kit to go with it. The end result is a very neat and reasonably fast desktop computer that will do everything I need on a day to day basis without all that 'Please Wait....' nonsense that Windows machines suffer from. It will boot in exactly half the time of my existing Raspberry Pi 400 (another great machine) using a USB SSD boot drive.”
“This is for my first adventure into Pi land and I am very impressed. I bought a 4Gb and an 8Gb version, was worried that that the 4Gb may not be prowerful enough but should have saved some money. So for the 4Gb Pi has coped easily with a media center project and as a desktop replacement. I love that I can just swap SD cards to have a different machine in seconds. Maybe I'll use the 8Gb to build a kicking desktop machine and clear some under desk space in my office.”
