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Wondering if this will impact their manufacturing more, I can't find pi 4s anywhere except from some stores in the UK
Vilros.com isn't on their list of vendors, but they have them, too.
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Those did not fit two full size ports, just one. The newer ones have two mini HDMI ports. Yes, it’s a trade off.
Maybe someone wants two video outputs from a Raspberry Pi, but I sure don't. I'd much rather have a normal connector.
Its not like a a USB-C only Macbook where you might actually be bringing it to various different locations and unexpectedly need to do a presentation.
Benchmarks are nothing groundbreaking but wins are consistent and in some cases pretty big (2x throughput/50% of the rpi4 wall clock time, etc.) Nice fan header. I'll take it!
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How did you get a link that is not on the Phoronix home page, and has not shown up on my RSS reader yet? If it were time to be announced, I would expect to see other articles and videos, but googling restricted to the last 24 hours turns up nothing.
Interesting, I didn't know. It's the second link here: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=raspberry+pi+5
i.e. https://www.phoronix.com/robots.txt contains:
Sitemap: https://www.phoronix.com/sitemap.php
https://www.phoronix.com/review/raspberry-pi-5-benchmarks
2023-09-28
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https://www.phoronix.com/review/raspberry-pi-5-benchmarks/6 Phoronix has a review too. As fast as the the Orange Pi 5, which is an 8-core.
Which is to say the extra 4 cores are nice, and probably help keep power consumption down, but they are very slow compared to the performance cores.
The Orange Pi 5 / 5Plus boards have far far more features than the RP5 and to me are far more interesting. They have PCIE!
Most importantly though, you can just buy them. I ordered 8 Orange Pi 5Plus 16GB boards from aliexpress and got them in about 2 weeks. You could buy 50 today if you wanted. Good luck getting 3 RP5's, much less 8.
- They prioritized industry over community, and made it almost impossible for hobbyists to get any meaningful hardware for so long.
- They allowed retailers like Pimoroni price gouge Raspberry PI's by forcing everyone to buy really expensive bundles of needles cables, power adapters, officially licensed toothbrushes, and other nonsense
- And then, after all that drama, they release a new edition of the flagship product and make community members have buyers remorse over waiting so long and paying $400 for a Raspi Pi 4 2GB + officially licensed socks bundle. (The prices of Raspi Pi 4's in some countries was/is really shocking and sad.)
Everything else looks great but those filthy nasty micro HDMIs need to go away. Why do those still exist? It's like still using MicroUSB. I guess it must have something to do with legacy digital signage or something but still. Full size HDMI is fine because it's what everyone already has cables for, anything small could just be USB-C. Couldn't they have even just gone with a single USB-C and done the dual monitors wi…
Plus, I never have the right damned cable. Large HDMI please!
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Maybe someone wants two video outputs from a Raspberry Pi, but I sure don't. I'd much rather have a normal connector.
In any situation where I would want to use a Pi with a display instead off SSH into it, I'd always prefer the option of having the ability to run two screens over one. The mini HDMI port is only an annoyance if you buy one, but had an old one with a regular HDMI port and realize you needed to buy a couple extra things once. Its not like a a USB-C only Macbook where you might actually be bringing it to various differe…