“The Raspberry Pi 5 marks a significant upgrade in the beloved series. Its faster CPU noticeably improves processing speeds, making projects more efficient. Enhanced Wi-Fi stability ensures seamless internet connectivity. Ideal for both beginners and seasoned hobbyists, it offers great value, maintaining Raspberry Pi's legacy of accessible, versatile computing at a reasonable price.”
“Excellent experience with Pimoroni with placing this order and receving feedback when it was posted to me, very excited to get this Pi 5 up and running on several projects I have planned thanks to Pimoroni”
“Amazing. Needs more power (get a decent PSU - lots of laptops use USB-C now, as a thought). Hotter too, but I don't run a massive sustained load, so passive cooling is fine for me.”
“I'm loving the pi5. It's much faster than my pi4 8GB at running a desktop/browser etc. Very nice.
I've hooked it up to a Heltec LoRa v3 and am having a lot of fun with meshtastic sending long range messages. I've picked up a router node 50 miles away! I've spoken to a few people on it and have been messing around with the python api for meshtastic making my pi helpful (to me at least) on the mesh.
I've tried it with some emulators and that was a lot of fun, it was able to do some consoles better than the pi4 was. I tried both retropie and batocera and both worked well.
I have it in a case with a fan and overclocked to "EXTREME" settings by batoceras measurement system. It's doing fine and isn't bothered.
I've used it to quantize Llama 7b and it took ages and was really really slow to respond but it did get there sometimes. Alpaca works much better but it's answers are somethings weird.
I've not hooked any hats up to it yet but I expect they'll work fine.
Get a proper power supply, any old usb-c cable won't do. It is greedy on the power compared to earlier boards I think.
It's much faster if you run the OS off a usb drive instead of SD card so if you are chasing speed you've probably already done that.”
“Very happy with the pi5, loaded OS in seconds. And installed everything I wanted in few mins.
Power and speed are fantastic. Definitely satisfied with this over pi3. Just gonna wait bit for Camera upgrade. Then I can do everything I want. Thanks Rasp Pi, didn't let me down”
