“The Pi 5 is the best ARM single board computer on the market in my opinion. It's strong enough for most desktop use cases including 1080p AV1 playback, browsing with Firefox and even running early 2000s PC games and demos via box86 and wine.
The board is actually pretty low power (11W from the wall for AV1 playback) despite the recommendation for 5A power supply and active cooling. I don't use active cooling and the thermal throttling is not bad at all.
I'm also positively surprised that dual 1440p 120Hz outputs work just fine. However, the board itself is not fast enough to fully maintain a high refresh rate at low latency. Still, the Pi 5 is much snappier than the Pi 4, which had very bad wayland desktop performance when I last tried it.”
“As usual dealing with Pimoroni is easy and indeed seamless. The 5 is as expected, and I am finding the onboard switch is more useful than I thought it would be. One still needs to use shutdown to turn it off (it is not a replacement for the good old OnOff shim) but you don't need to unplug it to turn it back on. Who would have thought... I tend to do light desktop work with the pi5, and it needs cooling on occasion. I gummed a 30x40 passive heat-sink on top ('cause I'm cheap) and all is okay for my uses so far.”
“I’ve got this set up as a home theatre PC (HTPC) running Kodi. It plays 1080p video with ease, and manages most 4k content fine as long as it isn’t some huge 50GB+ remux. Comes with CEC natively so my TV can control Kodi with its remote.”
“This thing rocks, if you have a bit of free time or good will, you can make some amazing stuff with it. The delivery was fast and the product came in perfect condition.”
“The new Raspberry Pi 5 is much more powerful than the Pi 4. Set up is easy with the Raspberry Pi OS. I'm currently using it as a media server and is perfect.
The service from Pimoroni is second to none. Highly recommended!”
“How can anyone not love the versatility of the Raspberry Pi. The Pi 5 is more powerful and has more features than the 4, its a great upgrade and a great piece of hardware. Perfect for mini home servers, Ad blockers, docker servers or just an emulation station so you can play your retro games!”
