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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Powerful, Quiet, and Easy to Setup
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Great performance for the size. Kit was very easy to install and fan was incredibly quiet.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Good value, but an N100 mini PC might be better
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
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The overall quality of this kit is actually decent for the 160 USD it was at the time I ordered it. If anything is lacking, I'd say the case itself feels a little cheaper than I'd like. If you specifically need a Raspberry Pi5 8gb to do some programming on a board that runs at a relatively lower power consumption or retro gaming, this is a solid choice. You can even flash multiple operating systems to one SD card or have a different OS on several cards to swap between them in a flash.
Just a heads up though: Sound did NOT work out of the box with the preinstalled operating system, even after letting it automatically install all the updates, and even after reimaging the OS entirely from scratch when Canakit told me to waste my time with that. Should you have the same issue, make sure the computer is connected to the internet, launch the command box and type:
sudo apt update
Hit enter, wait for it to finish, and then type:
sudo apt upgrade
Enter the confirmation to let it upgrade and then reboot it. These commands apparently download the most up to date drivers, which the Pi version of the Linux OS doesn't include in the automatic updates manager.
If you don't need a Pi computer specifically, and just need an inexpensive PC for basic video streaming services, web browsing, social media, maybe some lower spec Steam games (It plays some Xbox 360 games off steam just fine), you can get very solid performance with an N100 mini pc running full blown Windows 11 for about the same price as this or a little more.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Nice quick little device
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Wonderful little tinker board. I have it running a home assistant server, but there are many more things that can be done.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Not bad.
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Not a bad device. Decent processing power. Output at 4K is a lot laggy at first but smooths out quickly. Fir the price it’s not bad.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Raspberry Pi kit
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It was perfect. Extremely happy for the price! Solid kit
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great starter kit!!
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This is an excellent kit to get any kind Linux based project started. Everything is in the box and looks great once assembled, very clean. I’ve used my kit to set up a NAS and homebridge that brings all of my IOT controls into HomeKit (mostly).
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great complete kit
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
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Great kit! Everything you need to get started quickly developing automations. Easy to connect keyboard, monitor and mouse.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Raspberry pi
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Best purchase I’ve ever made! I’m learning how to program and code. The setup was extremely easy and all I can say is, I LOVE IT!
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Raspberry pi 5
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Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
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This item is great for learning how programming works
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Arrived broken
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Brought it home flashed two seperate sd cards it corrupted them both best buy is swapping though