“I love this thing. I was curious how much "faster" it was going to be compared to my RPI4's that are overclocked to the same GHz as the 5's stock speed. I was very impressed, the RPi5's speed was absolutely faster, regardless of using an SD card, a small USB3 thumb drive to use it as its disk.
The only time I really notice that its still struggles is when I run videos from say YouTube. They still get choppy sometimes and you can tell the Pi5 is struggling. But thats OK. For the price and size, you get an amazing computer capable of so many things! I have a fairly large monitor (40 inch 4K) and when I fullscreened a video on YouTube that was a "4K" video it struggled a bit but it did manage to play it back looking VERY sharp just a few bumps along the way. I have nothing bad to say about the Rpi5 its amazing. I will be buying more for sure. I plan to overclock this one soon. I hope that RP has plans for a 5B board or something, maybe something that allows better/faster connectivity to the PCI bus. That would allow for people to really take advantage of today's NVME drives. Imagine if it could handle triple or quadruple the speed with multiple lanes on the PCI bus, it would likely turn the RPI5 into a rocket! I mean its almost there now! I love this thing. The OS has been stable, lots of updates all the time...to be expected. Thank you Pimoroni for allowing me exclusive pre-order status since I am a RP magazine subscriber. As soon as I found out about that I immediately came to your site (I could have gone elsewhere and gotten cheaper shipping since I'm in the U.S.) and wanted to support your company. Please keep up the great work, please keep the micropython code and examples for your products coming, they are very handy for newbies such as myself. That's one thing I love about Adafruit.com I must say, they do extensive code for users (though its circuit python but close enough and sometimes they do MP) and do videos about the product that help a lot too. I would love to see Pimoroni do something like that as well. The available software from the vendor and documentation/information for me at least is huge in deciding who I purchase from. Don't get me wrong I am always going to your Github site for products! I do wish some of the code you bake into your MP images where availble for easy download for any given product. I know a lot is there on Github. For example I installed the latest image of MP on an ESP32S3 board because I wanted to use a BME sensor. Fine no issues, but I ran into (and I dont remember) another hardware device you sell that did not have the modules baked into the image. I had to scrounge around your Github and other sites to get the device up and running. That's just me and I know you can go change your company because of one customer lol. Keep up the great work and prices!
- From the U.S. with love.”
