“What the bare stats don't really represent is that the pure clock speed boost over the RPi400 being about 33% isn't a direct correlation to how much quicker the boot time and shutdown time is on this now. I took it on holiday as a media centre and also web browser for tourist info when plugged into the hotel TV. At this it excelled and with Kodi installed as an also-app as opposed to the whole OS it functioned well to beam my ripped DVDs and old DivX bittorrent downloads to the same TV. I am very pleased with it. The whole 'No PCIe availability for M2 SSDs' doesn't hurt it at all in this use case as a proper USB3 thumb drive into a USB3 slot functioned just fine and as mentioned, the boot from TF card was about 6 seconds tops.”
“This is a brilliant home computer, suitable for beginners, hobbyists and power users alike. I installed Ubuntu 24 onto a microSD card, and was up and running in under half an hour, most of which was taken up by automatic update downloads to ensure that I had the very latest and most secure versions of the kernal and applications. It's not quite as fast as my Intel-based desktop machine, but it's still a very capable computer.”
“Great product as I wanted a small footprint but with hindsight a regular Pi 5 would have done the job as connecting remotely usinf Pi Connect is such a doddle. Great bit of kit though.”
“What a great little computer. Pretty much plugin and go. It comes preloaded with the latest OS with most of the productivity applications you will need for day to day tasks, like creating documents, browsing the internet and sending emails.”
“A relived experience of my early years when I got a ZX Spectrum - opening the box with a complete system and book to get going. This is an excellent product for the price and the small form factor makes it easy to store away or connect to your monitor. Bought this to play with Python and Linux. Yes I can just continue to use free resources for my laptop and Pythonista for my IPad. But this is different and allows me to connect external devices and play to make code execute a physical outcome. Would recommend for any child’s first steps into programming and beyond. Not just aged teenagers like me.”
