2y ago

Raspberry Pi 5 revealed, and it should satisfy your need for speed

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Raspberry Pi 5 revealed: faster, but lacks audio jack

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No fucking way they stuck with mini HDMI I swear to God. The only thing I wanted from a new gen was an HDMI port designed to actually be used
And they kept the same WiFi / Bluetooth chip, known for being completely unstable and recommended to be supplemented for almost any project
- Still no m2 slot support? SD cards remind me of the 5400rpm HDD days.
  
  It does support m.2 (and presumably other single-lane pcie devices via a HAT apparently.
  So that's an improvement
  
  I'm not sure it's needed, but certainly would be nice. Most applications for a pi are just fine on a high performance SD card
- Agreed. Seems like I am going to skip this generation or if I need a new Pi, buy a 4.
  
  Personally I'm not sure yet. Sounds like its gotten a very much needed performance boost but those drawbacks are certainly disappointing.
- Every post I’ve seen about this had people complaining about the things it didn’t have. Will it actually satisfy anyone?
Nice, but can you actually buy it?
- Just like the current rpis, you won't be able to. But businesses will.
  Rpi is a for maximum profit company now, it's not about supplying boards to hobbiests, it's about supplying boards to industry
  
  Why the doom-and-gloom? Have you tried ordering any in the last several months?
  https://rpilocator.com/?cat=PI4
  I ordered 4x Pi 4 8GBs a few weeks ago for a Kubernetes cluster without any issue. The stock problem cleared up a few months ago.
- I bought my first rpi 4 for like 30 eur, the second one I couldnt even buy.
No open sourced RISC-V processor? Not interested.
And courting Micro$oft...??
He's lost the plot
- It gets worse
  
  To quote a Linux tech writer:
  "You literally cannot boot a raspberry pi zero, one, two, three or four without running ThreadX which is a Microsoft product.
  "So whether the OS pings a repo or not is moot. The whole damn computer is run by a proprietary sealed Microsoft binary."
Can I just get the Pi3 and Pi4 variants readily and consistently available?
- Lol, no.
Thirsty boy
Is it fast and furious too?
I assume still no real power management :-S
- You can adjust the power usage now to either over clock the CPU or to supply USB devices.

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