“Powerful, easy to set up. Mine has a 500GB NVMe and a USB sound dongle for stereo sound out. Everything plugged together and worked. The NVMe PCI card setup was a tad bit fiddly, but nothing an average hobbiest can't tackle.”
“It zips along like a full-blown desktop computer and it boots quickly. I have not been able to make it break out into a sweat: the CPU activity and temperature gadgets on the panel barely register.
The Pi 4 seems a real slow-coach in comparison. There is not much difference in the price, either.”
“perfect next step for the Rasp Pi family, just as small and easy to set up, does generate a lot more heat than previous versions but this is obviously going to happen as you push the limitations of small form factor. I am curretly using this as a media server in my home”