Raspberry Pi 4 as IT Workstation
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Thanks @Scottalanmiller, this is the "review" I was looking for, I want to buy a device for lightweight office use and a windows 10 device seems "overkill" to me for what but especially how often I need to use it, so maybe a raspberry pi 4 8 GB with an argon m2 case without overclock should be fine for me, right?
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@scottalanmiller Looks and sound awesome i will give it try see how it goes.
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@itivan80 said in Raspberry Pi 4 as IT Workstation:
@scottalanmiller Looks and sound awesome i will give it try see how it goes.
We have several of these now!
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@greyzard said in Raspberry Pi 4 as IT Workstation:
Thanks @Scottalanmiller, this is the "review" I was looking for, I want to buy a device for lightweight office use and a windows 10 device seems "overkill" to me for what but especially how often I need to use it, so maybe a raspberry pi 4 8 GB with an argon m2 case without overclock should be fine for me, right?
That should be fine. BUT more likely, the RP400 will be better. $70 and it includes the case. It's only 4GB instead of 8GB, which sucks. But that means that you can run the lighter 32bit OS version that is faster AND it is already overclocked and includes a massive passive heatsink.
When I wrote the original I think the 400 wasn't out yet. Now, it is all that we buy. It's a huge (but simple) improvement on the original 4.
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@scottalanmiller there is only one little problem: we have already bought a keyboard and a mouse with backlight! So, if I can use a raspberry pi 4 8 GB it would be perfect for me, or would you prefer a 4 GB still with the argon m2 case?
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@scottalanmiller said in Raspberry Pi 4 as IT Workstation:
But that means that you can run the lighter 32bit OS version that is faster AND it is already overclocked and includes a massive passive heatsink.
But the web browser plus whatever else is running in addition to the OS will still eat up what's left of the RAM pretty easily I would think. My phone uses more than 4g of ram easily.
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@greyzard said in Raspberry Pi 4 as IT Workstation:
@scottalanmiller there is only one little problem: we have already bought a keyboard and a mouse with backlight! So, if I can use a raspberry pi 4 8 GB it would be perfect for me, or would you prefer a 4 GB still with the argon m2 case?
I'd use the 8GB if I was using my own case. But why not just use the keyboard elsewhere.
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@obsolesce said in Raspberry Pi 4 as IT Workstation:
@scottalanmiller said in Raspberry Pi 4 as IT Workstation:
But that means that you can run the lighter 32bit OS version that is faster AND it is already overclocked and includes a massive passive heatsink.
But the web browser plus whatever else is running in addition to the OS will still eat up what's left of the RAM pretty easily I would think. My phone uses more than 4g of ram easily.
It doesn't. Running a web browser on 4GB really works fine.
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@obsolesce said in Raspberry Pi 4 as IT Workstation:
@scottalanmiller said in Raspberry Pi 4 as IT Workstation:
But that means that you can run the lighter 32bit OS version that is faster AND it is already overclocked and includes a massive passive heatsink.
But the web browser plus whatever else is running in addition to the OS will still eat up what's left of the RAM pretty easily I would think. My phone uses more than 4g of ram easily.
Not really. It's actually hard to use up the 4GB RAM on the RPI4 as a normal user. Remember that everything running on it is lean, like LXDE for example.
https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/raspberry-pi-4-8gb-tested
I'd say that if you're happy with the RPI4 performance as a desktop then there's a 95% chance that 4GB RAM will be enough.
If you're a power user then RPI4 is too slow and you'll probably looking at something with at least 16GB RAM anyway.
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@pete-s said in Raspberry Pi 4 as IT Workstation:
@obsolesce said in Raspberry Pi 4 as IT Workstation:
@scottalanmiller said in Raspberry Pi 4 as IT Workstation:
But that means that you can run the lighter 32bit OS version that is faster AND it is already overclocked and includes a massive passive heatsink.
But the web browser plus whatever else is running in addition to the OS will still eat up what's left of the RAM pretty easily I would think. My phone uses more than 4g of ram easily.
Not really. It's actually hard to use up the 4GB RAM on the RPI4 as a normal user. Remember that everything running on it is lean, like LXDE for example.
https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/raspberry-pi-4-8gb-tested
I'd say that if you're happy with the RPI4 performance as a desktop then there's a 95% chance that 4GB RAM will be enough.
If you're a power user then RPI4 is too slow and you'll probably looking at something with at least 16GB RAM anyway.
This is why I like the RP400. It's the CPU, more than the RAM, that is the bottleneck for use and the RP400 is like 15% faster.
