Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! - Raspberry Pi
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Announcing Raspberry Pi 5, coming in late October: over 2x faster than Raspberry Pi 4, featuring silicon designed in-house at Raspberry Pi.
  • Destroyer of Worlds 3000@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    181·
    9 months ago

    I feel like me ordering a half dozen of these to control lights and sprinklers or random network pi-holes is the equivalent of the toast buttering robot on rick and morty. poor things will never live to their potential, but here we are.

    • nostradiel@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      I got lucky in 2019 and got my 4gb for msrp. Still running my nas while being turned off 2x during that time only when power outage. 🤣

    • jamiehs@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I repurposed an old gaming PC as a Proxmox server, stuck HA on a VM and have never looked back. Backups are easier, it’s blazing fast, I can have 90 days of history if I feel to, upgrades/reboots take seconds instead of minutes.

      Don’t get me wrong, I love my Pis and use them for my 3D printers and such, but Home Assistant is a lot for a Pi to manage well at times.

      Having said that… I too am curious about the performance bump here especially considering the SD card write speed increase and the PCI-E (SSD) capability. I’m sure it’ll still kill SD cards every 6 months with HA running on it though.

  • Thanks4Nothing@lemm.ee
    4·
    9 months ago

    But, will we be able to buy them when we need them? I sure hope so. There have been a few moments I really needed one and couldn’t get one at less than 150% markup. I am down to one RP4b

    • SatyrSack@lemmy.one
      0·
      9 months ago

      It starts at $60. The point that really launched the Pi’s popularity was that it was only $35.

      • verysoft@kbin.social
        2·
        9 months ago

        Can’t really compare from that long ago, given the current economical situation and inflation.
        But it’s also better hardware, they still sell older models too, so if you don’t need the performance increase then there’s cheaper options still available (and different models to further narrow down to what you need it for). I think they are defo worth $60.

  • Pulsar@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    Any word about shipping volumes? Is this RPI 5 going to be like a unicorn or the are plans to produce them in real volume?

  • blackbird@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    Can it decode x265 as my pi4 media player struggles with that and only plays the audio stream? So x264 is my current preferred format but comes in at much bigger file sizes.