My Raspberry PI 4 Came In

I have now received my pi4 board (4 GB model to act as a developer machine for my older pi boards). So far so good…I’ve loaded up the latest raspian (buster) on the a 64 GB micro SD card and things came up just fine.

I’ve got it in a simple case with laser cut sides and a small fan to keep the chip cool…sinks installed on the CPU, memory and one other part. A friend got his board in a bit earlier and loaded it up without a fan on things and noted that the CPU became VERY warm. Looks to me as if this board is going to need active cooling in many cases…I expect this may keep the pi3 in service for some time as a low-power option for many builds.

I’ve only started loading up development related items…went to bed a bit early last night with apt installing emacs when I went to bed. I’ll likely get this much further along over the weekend and post a bit more detailing my experience with the board.

I am hoping to get an OS loaded on one of my USB3 SSD drives as well. This should be faster, bigger and more robust than the micro-SD for the sort of things I’ll likely be doing with this board. I’ll detail my experiences as I get there.

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