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I just got an 8GB one and it works well enough for YouTube and light browsing but I couldn’t use it as a dedicated machine. Certainly is more snappy than the older ones I have. Just visiting the YouTube home page seems to really be pushing it though.

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What I am hearing from this is that there are good odds the Pi5 will be a suitable light-duty desktop replacement.

Pretty much, I think it just needs a slightly faster CPU to handle loading JavaScript heavy pages.

By then the Javascript-heavy pages will probably be even heavier. You'll then be waiting for the Raspberry Pi 6 to run them.

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