“Excellent sbc performance is leagues ahead of its beginnings. I've only used one monitor on the device but it performs well. Not really tested it as a server yer bur with 8GB of ram I'd guess it will be good”
“Enjoying the new Pi5. It's well built with typical Raspberry quality. Loving the new features and extra speed too. My Pi5 did develop a fault on the HDMI 0 connector which Pimoroni sorted for me when I contacted them about it, so top marks for customer service.”
“I've used Raspberry Pi 4 8GB as a desktop (along with USB3 M2 external 512GB SSD) for a while. Raspberry Pi 4 was just at the edge to be properly usable as desktop computer. PyCharm was just usable, Eclipse much more so, browsing was a bit slow but bearable.
Raspberry Pi 5 just pushed it to the other side! KDE with Plasma and all fancy transitions works smoothly, PyCharm is responsive and browsing (Chromium) is just fine.
Also, out of curiosity, I have run my Python ZX Spectrum emulator on Raspberry Pi 5. I have developing it on M1 Max Mac and it can achieve around 58-59 fps there (3.2GHz ARM processor - one thread of one core - as Python can't utilise more). The same code running on Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB) achieves 42-43fps on 2.4GHz! Mere 5-10% faster if you adjust clocks!
Also, a cheap USB to headphones dongle easily fixed line out I use for listening online radio on the RPi.”
