Raspberry Pi 4 8GB(not comes with pre-installed SD)

Plums of solder, matte soldering points (cold soldering i'd guess), rests of flux not washed out from the board, inaccurate cut PCB - all of this you can see on the photo. This garbage they were selling £82.75 (next day price dropped to £79.00, but anyway it does not cost of it!

The product listing very clearly states that this is a 'Raspberry Pi 4 8GB with 16GB NOOBs SD Card'. However, this does not come with an SD card. Had I known, I would of ordered one at the same time. I don't mind paying extra for an SD card, however I do mind being misled by a product listing. That being said, the Pi is fantastically well made and well packaged. No problems there.

Where is the SD card? None came in the box, or inside the PI. This costs a small fortune and you didn’t even bother putting in the SD card.

Clocked to 2.175GHz with an amazing Ice Tower heatsink/fan combo and 8GB RAM this nearly is a desktop replacement. If only all the apps I to use were supported on ARM/ARM64 I would be a happy bunny. This isn't a black mark against the Pi as hopefully with the adoption of ARM by Apple the devs will hopefully spend more effort on ARM64 as well as just AMD64.Otherwise its a great home server. The extra RAM means it can run multiple containers happily, or even if you are a traditionalist and just want to run a LAMP server you can easily run ClamAV without it sucking up all the memory!

I love Raspberry Pi, and always have. I'm sure this will be no exception. However, for the first time ever, despite buying from Pimoroni before, this came with the package damaged and one of the USB ports bent. Go buy from Pimoroni, its cheaper too!

What a great board. Loaded Ubuntu 20.10 on a 128GB microSD and am running a couple of CCTV camera on it using Zoneminder. Even though it's analyzing the CCTV images and that uses 50% of the CPU the desktop is still fairly responsive. Firefox loads in a few seconds. And this is without overclocking. Production quality of the board itself is excellent. The other great thing about this board is the power consumption. It uses between 3.5 watts and 6 watts depending on how hard you work the processor. My old PC was using 200-300 watts. This means I'm saving about £300/yr in electricity costs as the PC was on 24/7. The Pi will pay for itself in 4 months !

You need a lot of extra bits to get anything out of this: USB-C power supply and cable, micro-hdmi adapter a microSD card and some way to read and write that microSD card on your existing PC.Costs about £40 for all the extra bits you need to get it up and running.I have not used more than 2gb ram on it so far so wishing I had not paid extra for the 8gb. Not sure what the 8gb could be used for. Certainly the “official” OS and various homebrew OS installs I’ve tried such as Retropie don’t make use of it.

The raspberry pi computers are great so don’t let this review put you off them.The pi’s are unbelievable computers the amount of things you can do and DIY with them is mind blowing. However when I purchased mine it arrived and just didn’t turn on or acknowledge anything but again that’s not because the Raspberry Pi’s are bad it’s more than likely getting mixed up between returns and new on the sellers end