“Wow, 8GB makes a massive difference, this is seriously fast. Its my 2nd Pi5, the first was 2GB. I'm waiting for the hand held console with battery to come in stock but its perfect for that project. A hand held very performant Pi. My goal is small netbook/laptop alternative. Very easy to get up and running with a download of the latest PiOS from the Pi Imager app. The new PiOS is visually a big improvement on the prior. I was going to go Ubuntu but really like the new PiOS. No issues at all, everything works perfectly.”
“Super fast shipping. Super easy to set up using ChatGPT to walk me through the entire process. Everything was EXACTLY as expected by ChatGPT. Added the additional hardware, Active Cooler, SSD. It runs completely silent....so far I've not put the CPU under enough load to switch the fan on. It'll be used to run my Halloween show, fusing radar data with camera video data to determine where people are and where they are actually looking and sending 'scene' based commands to each prop to run the 'show'. Busy configuring the large number of ESP32 controllers for wifi comms back to the Pi5. And busy getting ChatGPT to programme the LCD displays to act as eyes to form the show entry point....with the Pi5 deciding where each eye should be focussed. Lots of moving parts, but really happy the Pi5 will be managing the show for me.”
“The Raspberry Pi has continued to improve and this version is excellent. I use it for running Home Assistant and it works like a dream. Housed in an Argon One V3 case, which allows the use of an M.2 memory chip for much more reliability. It also has a cooling fan built in, which can be automatically controlled by the Pi. The 8GB of RAM allows the Pi 5 to run multiple tasks simultaneously without a hitch and all in all make for a very reasonably priced Home Automation System. Thoroughly recommend.”
