“I bought this to give my laptop a breather as it is getting old and slow. I wanted another machine to run docker containers and host web applications. It is truely a brilliant piece of tech! I currently host small personal productivity apps on Azure. The Pi has allowed me to cancel these, saving me regular monthly payments. So far, the Pi has been rapid -- far more than previous generations. Hoping to stress test it by running an 8 Billion param LLM on it. Will give a follow-up on this.
My only con is the price. It seems pricier for UK consumers as compared to say US. Although, as a substitute for cloud fees, I will save money in the long run.”
“Got the 16GB Pi 5 and wow, it's got memory for days. It's been working out well and helping the performance of some workloads by reducing the memory pressure / swapping. But here's the thing - at $120, it's getting pretty expensive for a Pi. The 16GB model saw a whopping 657MB used on boot so it's a bit of a memory hog too. Only worth it if you actually need all that RAM.”
“Loving my 6th RPi 5. Also have the PoE and NVME Hat and works a treat. All purchased from The Pi Hut over the years. Also have 8 RPi 4 Model B that I also use.”
