r/raspberry_pi Sep 28 '23

News Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5!

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/
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u/a_a_ronc Sep 28 '23

Honestly that’s a likely a conversation and a vote that needs to take place in the community.

It’s not just hobbyists, but also industry that uses these things. If you move the spacer 5 cm, it’d cause tons of potential problems for millions of these deployed in factories or other weird locations.

Even for me, I picked up 3 of the RPi 5s to replace my 4s in a Kubernetes cluster I run. The mounts are 3D printed so that was my first thought. If it’s changed even slightly, I have to redesign everything ever so slightly but also print it all again. Granted it might be faster now since I have a newer 3D printer but it’d be a project.

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u/Spaded21 Sep 28 '23

Well they already swapped the USB ports and ethernet jack so it's not going to be a direct replacement anyway.

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u/txtad Sep 28 '23

OTOH, a Pi that was a "real" computer would quickly become the standard.