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
    221·
    1 year 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.

    • jamiehs@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year 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.

      • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m running HA on an esxi VM on a gen10 proliant server for the same reasons.

        I made the joke because the max spec pi 4 is just reaching breaking point based on testing a recent upgrade on a HA instance I previously had on there.

        If the pi 5 copes better that still opens HA up for a generation of new home automators without having to invest a lot of cash or maintain software and hardware for a non-SBC.

        I hope this trend doesn’t continue with HA though; it’s getting very resource heavy. It’s my second most resource intensive VM after a windows VM which says a lot…

    • nostradiel@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year 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. 🤣

  • Thanks4Nothing@lemm.ee
    5·
    1 year 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

  • blackbird@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    1 year 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.

    • SatyrSack@lemmy.one
      1·
      1 year ago

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

      • verysoft@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year 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.

      • Peffse@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah it’s weird that they don’t have plans for that price point. I mean, given inflation the starting price should be closer to $50 USD, so I’m guessing they’re going to continue production of RPi4 to keep that entry level low.

  • Pulsar@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year 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?