It looks like a big improvement over the 4 but sadly needs active cooling or it throttles under load quickly. It has a new form factor which requires a new case too. Still there are a lot of great additions that make it a good upgrade.
So, is anyone itching to buy one?
I am but it’s a bit too much money for “just because”.
I also bought a pi 4 very recently.
I am but it’s a bit too much money for “just because”.
I’m on the same boat. I have a RPi4 that I briefly used as a personal computer, and even though I’d love to get a RPi5 I’m struggling to justify it. It sounds like it’s around €100 for a 8GB version (board+case+power supply) and that’s already in x86 MiniPC territory.
They are a hard sell over tiny x86 systems still. Even my 3d printers don’t use the gpio and the only thing I have used it for before, which is flashing coreboot to a laptop, is no longer needed both due to having a USB device for it as well as flasher only actually being needed the first time and some edge cases.
Most server things I just run vms on xcp-ng and containers on the vms. I’m also trialling nixos on some netbooks that were free for some misc stuff like home automation.
For me it’s about power consumption. I wish there were more powerful arm based socs available. x86 is so inefficient compared to anything risc based that it feels wasteful.
Exactly, for me RPI was supposed to be about low power consumption. Rpi4 is stretching it already, rpi5 with cooling won’t be worth it .
I feel like it doesn’t necessarily fit the market for a raspberry pi - I bought mine bc I needed little computing power running really small applications for me and my friends, but with better hardware on a raspberry pi, I feel like it strays from why a lot of people bought it: small computer, small computing power
