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Re:M.2 on a Raspberry Pi – The Tofu CM4 Carrier Board by jandrese on Friday March 12, 2021 @01:57PM (#26439466)
It really depends what you're doing. The 5W CPU in the Pi is more than adequate for a lot of tasks. Heck, I wrote papers using Libreoffice on the original model Pi.

The Pi4 is powerful enough to run web browsers comfortably, which was a problem on the original Pi. Office programs run no sweat. You can even do light development work.

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Re:M.2 on a Raspberry Pi – The Tofu CM4 Carrier Board by 72deluxe on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:38PM (#26439962)
Yes I have switched to using a Pi4 8GB as a desktop machine running WindowMaker and it's speedy as can be. Am using a USB3 SSD but booting from /boot on the SD card, which then loads the main system from the SSD. Can happily do C++ work on it or RDP to a Windows machine.
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