Re: New Pico2

On 22/08/2024 07:37, Jan Panteltje wrote:

I decided to stop with newer Raspberry Pis after this 8 GB Pi4 I am using to post this.
 A 35 dollar HD TV satellite box is a faster better media player,

Try a media optimised OS such as Kodi, rather than a general purpose distro if you want to use a Pi as a media player.

Pis take ever more power..

Don't confuse the availability of a larger power supply with the Pi 5 taking more power - it's not much different to the Pi 4. However, as you *could* attach 4 USB devices and a PCIe device, the PSU is rated to cope with the maximum current all of those devices could use simultanously. If you won't be doing that, you can use the Pi 4 PSU.

Is not Pi5 a downgraded Pi4?

No, it's a new SOC which is about 3x faster than a Pi 4, and can use NVME SSDs and other PCIe devices.
---druck