back to article Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 cranks up the power – and the heat

The Raspberry Pi maker has rounded off a busy few weeks with the launch of an updated Compute Module 5 - it has the same form factor but considerably more power than the previous generation. The Compute Module 4 turned up in 2020, a year after the Raspberry Pi 4. The Compute Module 5 has followed a similar pattern, arriving …

  1. Will Godfrey Silver badge
    Unhappy

    Why?

    ... is a device designed and built in the UK priced in dollars?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Why?

      Why is the oil extracted in the Middle East or Russia priced in dollars?

      1. CowHorseFrog Silver badge

        Re: Why?

        This is why Americans have no culture and all their racist problems at home. THey simply dont have a fucking clue about respecting others.

    2. werdsmith Silver badge

      Re: Why?

      Your question is asked and answered in the comments under the announcement on the RPi website.

      It has also been asked and answered constantly since 2012.

    3. doublelayer Silver badge

      Re: Why?

      ... are you surprised by something they've done, and explained, forever? Also, why is this such an issue for you, given that they're not expecting you to change your money to dollars to buy one, and the exchange rate charged by pound-using UK sellers doesn't tend to change daily, so once you find out what your local source of compute modules is charging, it stays that much all the way through, at least it did for CM4s.

    4. richdin

      Re: Why?

      Because paying in cows and making change with sheep and chickens is difficult... they don't fit in your pocket.

      1. John Brown (no body) Silver badge

        Re: Why?

        "they don't fit in your pocket."

        They come in all sorts of sizes, right down to ones that will easily fit in your pocket. I saw it on a TV show :-)

  2. werdsmith Silver badge

    The SDRAM on the compute module appears to be ECC.

  3. Naich

    Nice little shout-out to KiCad on the PCB there.

    1. carl0s

      On YouTube, most of the "hobbyist" electronics people are doing "shoutoutz" to Altium :facepalm:

      One of the guys, greatscott, is shilling a frickin' £14,000 (+vat) 14bit keysight 'scope at the start of all his hobbyist learn-electronics videos FFS.

  4. Lazlo Woodbine Silver badge

    Does anyone know if there are plans afoot to make Pi5 version of the Pi 400 computer?

    1. werdsmith Silver badge

      An open secret, discussed on the Pi official site forums.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Not for me

    Last night I needed a pi for a task and discovered that I had to opt out of telemetry collection next that username/password was limited to hyphons and lowercase

    Clearly the pi is no longer what it used to be in the end I put the pis back in their draw disgusted

    Sry for any typos but this was posted via android phone which sadly I trust more than my pis now

    1. werdsmith Silver badge

      Re: Not for me

      The Pi and Raspberry PI OS don't send any telemetry.

      Only the imager that writes the OS image to an SD card offers you the opportunity to opt out. It just collects information on use of the imager, not the user.

      You don't have to use the Imager. There are multiple ways you can flash your SD.

      If you had got over yourself and set up your Pi you could have posted without typos.

    2. doublelayer Silver badge

      Re: Not for me

      Where does the username and password requirement come in? Normal tools will restrict usernames to lowercase, but numbers are fine, and that can be overridden if you want to. Passwords have no limits at all. What were you doing that limited either of these?

    3. timrowledge

      Re: Not for me

      I feel quite confident that this didn’t happen

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