<div dir="ltr">I bought my last pi4 a month ago from Memory Express in Victoria, Blanchard and Hillside.<div>I would not buy the kit. You can use a laptop power supply that outputs on a USB C, which is quite common for Chromebook laptops.</div><div>We have lots of free parts in our donated stock that make up the kit. You would want the heatsink.</div><div>I would wait for the Pi5 if you can do without a 3.5mm audio output jack. The Pi5 is more powerful, essentially enough to run as a desktop. If you are only reading sensors and reporting to a website, you could get by with a Pi3 or 4.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 1:08 PM Alex Halliday <<a href="mailto:alexh4264@gmail.com">alexh4264@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div>I am looking at buying my first Raspberry Pi.</div><div>I know the 5 just came out so my first question is buy a 4b or wait until sellers have the 5 in stock?</div><div>Second, is there a good place to buy them? I have looked at amazon, <a href="http://pishop.ca" target="_blank">pishop.ca</a> and cannakit. Is one better than the others? Wondering if any go 'on sale'?</div><div>Finally I was looking at 'kits' to get started such as </div><div>: <a href="https://www.pishop.ca/product/raspberry-pi-4b-ultimate-kit-64gb-sd-card/" target="_blank">https://www.pishop.ca/product/raspberry-pi-4b-ultimate-kit-64gb-sd-card/</a></div><div>Is there anything else that is a 'must have' that wouldn't be included in a kit such as this? </div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Alex</div></div>
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