While the Pi 4’s CPU’s are the best yet in the Raspberry Pi hardware line, they are still not quite capable of tasks requiring heavy compute needs. Even the desktop experience is still not something I would want to use as a daily driver. While it could drive a NAS, performance would likely be sub-par. I have found running a Kubernetes cluster on a Pi 4 consumes nearly 60% of CPU just running standard Ingress and web interface services like Portainer, so the Pi’s ARM-based CPU still has a long way to go to catch up to something like Apple’s M1.
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