Raspberry Pi 5 4GB

Rasberry Pi are fun to build and experiment with and the Raspberry Pi 5 4gb is the perfect balance of performance and cost. Got a TFT touch screen, and armor lite heatsink on this running the Rasbian 64 bit version. Works great!

What's not to like? These Pi5's can do so many neat things, and they are so much quicker than the earlier Pi4, Pi3, etc. They can even work fine for web browsing an mail tasks as a desktop. Just make sure you use a decent power supply with them, or even better--get a POE hat and run them from your Ethernet switch, assuming it has built-in POE. If not, buy a separate POE injector and skip the wall wart supply. Great for putting your Pi in places where there your can't plug in a power supply.

I used this great it helped me with my project probably could’ve kept the 80 dollars but it’s fun I still mess with it every now and then for people who have adhd like me it’s fun bc it can be used over and over for many products

Lots of power in a tiny and modest price and format. I love creating Internet of Things devices using primarily Raspberry PI devices. There are tons of informational videos on Youtube and other sites that helps you learn how to use this quickly and enables the true DIY found even in computer geeks. I've never had one of these cards fail, and 16 GB is more than most any application should need.

fun to use and learn, works well

I like the addition of a PCIe connector. It allowed use of an inexpensive NVMe board for fast boots and read/write operations. The PD power negotiation thing is something to be aware of, both in terms of the power supply used and the USB cable used for the power connection. I opted for a power expansion board that includes both voltage regulation and PD power negotiation, providing negotiated 5V 5A power from 7v - 24v sources. The board I used is the Yahboom PD Power Expansion Board, amazon item: B0D3XMLMGW.The attached picturs show my Pi 5 board with both the NVMe and power expansion boards added top and bottom. You can also see the OEM style active cooler, which runs as needed and is very quiet.

The best Raspberry Pi to date, I have had them all for various projects and the 5 blows the others out of the water, install it in a good case with cooling and you will have 1 power house of a system

I love the speed of this!Programming in Python turned out to be a pain in the butt because the built-in Python3 won't let you install add-on modules! This forced me to create a virtual environment copy of Python3 to install my wxPython, Python-Kasa and since the RPi.GPIO wouldn't do what I needed it, I had to install gpiozero to get my project up and running. I had to further lock down system Python access so I didn't have to constantly ACTIVATE/DEACTIVATE my virtual environment! Once I got through all this setup headache, programming was the easy part.I gave it 4 stars because of the locked down Python headaches. Otherwise it is an awesome little single board computer.