What would someone excited about the improved specs on the 5 be using a Pi for? I have 1-2 of each gen, but to me, they aren't devices I would use if I needed grunt. They're just solid little low power, low heat devices for running odds and ends. Curious what people who are pushing them hard are using them for.
I used a Pi 4 as a CI server for a previous project. While speed wasn’t critical (it was fast enough for me to not care save for one rarer multi-hour job that was usually cached) I certainly would’ve welcomed the improvements the Pi 5 is bringing.
...I'd like to point put that the Pi 4 without any overclocking basically replaced the first non 486 my gamily owned as a family computer.
The Pi 5 will end up replacing my first gaming spec'd E-Machine.
Considering the wide variety of use cases I got out of both of those computers growing up, it takes very little imagination imo to figure out what to do with them.
Even on e I get around to actually getting an x64 server spec'd machine for actually doing grunt work, I figure these little Pi's will be perfect for little oneoffs like mirroring repos I care about. Constrained dev boxes, network jiggery pokery boxes. Hell, might even get around to trying a non traditional form factor builds one of these days
I don't know why people would select a RPi for something that needed raw CPU speed, but the new IO chip is a winner for me. The IO has sucked on all Raspberry Pis to date. I tried to use a Pi 4 connected to a USB3 HDD as a wireless NAS and it was abysmally slow, despite the CPU never breaking a sweat.
