Raspberry Pi 5: available now! We’ve been excited to see the response of early users to Raspberry Pi 5, and can’t wait to see what you do once you get your hands on it.
I feel like these fit a different niche. The GPIO and onboard cameras and such are super useful in some projects. I have 2 pi4’s and a bunch of zero W’s and zero W2’s. They all do different server or client things with various sensors, cameras and such and only one is anywhere near a monitor. Many are on battery or POE, which is a big help. If you’re just trying to use it like a desktop, look elsewhere.
Luckily the 4 and 5 can just use USB-C for power and since I only need to see the screen during setup I bought a cheap 2 pack of 4k mini-HDMI to HDMI adapters for like $12 on amazon.
I feel like these fit a different niche. The GPIO and onboard cameras and such are super useful in some projects. I have 2 pi4’s and a bunch of zero W’s and zero W2’s. They all do different server or client things with various sensors, cameras and such and only one is anywhere near a monitor. Many are on battery or POE, which is a big help. If you’re just trying to use it like a desktop, look elsewhere.
Luckily the 4 and 5 can just use USB-C for power and since I only need to see the screen during setup I bought a cheap 2 pack of 4k mini-HDMI to HDMI adapters for like $12 on amazon.
You’re right of course that I’m speaking from a cheap desktop / streambox / server use. But then again this post is about the ‘big’ Pi.
For the smaller ones I’d hope they can return to really cheap, PoE integrated and low power over compute power