Comment on What are some great use cases for a Raspberry Pi 4, if I buy the 5 to replace it?
SweetMylk@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Here is a controversial thought; do you need to replace the 4?
Comment on What are some great use cases for a Raspberry Pi 4, if I buy the 5 to replace it?
SweetMylk@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Here is a controversial thought; do you need to replace the 4?
StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
I can’t speak for the OP, but in my case… It was very much a resounding YES!!! If your using Pis as general home servers, like I was, you can very quickly run into resource constraints. I wound up replacing 5 Pi 4’s with a pair of 4th gen Intel boxes and I’m still hit resource limitations from time to time. Though now it is more io related then ram or cpu.
narshee@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 months ago
You didn’t blindly upgrade to the next Pi. Not upgrading or upgrading to something you know meets your demands are the right things to do. I assume upgrading to a Pi 5 is not that for most people
themurphy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
In my case I need the 5 for the extra power. It will exactly meet my demands, and the 4 ‘only’ does 90% of the time.
And if I could find something cool for the 4, I would buy the 5 immediately. But I think I need to know that I can use it for something. Otherwise I will feel bad doe buying the 5.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 7 months ago
On the other hand, they’re relatively cheap and it gives you a spare to tinker with, or at least that’s what I told myself last week when I ordered another Pi3 since I saw they came back in stock on Digikey after all these years.
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You probably don’t need pis then you need a real server