Raspberry Pi 5 announced

Very nice... but now needs a heatsink and cooling fan it seems.

Also, these days, Pi is far less the go to thing, since mini/micro PC's have come way down in price.

I still be thinking Pi's 4b 2GB is like $200 on ebay or something....but that was during the pandemic and stock shortage days.... I guess i should have sold off my pi's then. Moved to mini pc's not to long ago.

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Looks like this new model, CAN play 1080p Youtube without dropping frames! :smiley:

I could never get smooth playback on the 4b with even 720p video and the thing being overclocked.

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I never even dove into Pi's because the Mini PCs were an all in one deal and included Windows (which I don't need). My Beelink is still running strong and was $150 delivered when on sale.

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$50 pre-order for the 4Gb version, $66.63 for the 8Gb version at the ThePihut.com

I got mine yesterday and the cooling fan is very quiet.

I have tested the RP5 with different cases/cooling and compared it to my RP4 & iMac here.