The waiting time is horrendous though. Mine arrived 8 months after I purchased it but beyond that, those are absolutely great. I stopped carrying a laptop in my backpack, just one of those with an additional expansion board and an HDMI port. My work involves a ton of data which I can't fit into memory so in all cases, my computer is just a terminal to a large server somewhere. So Clockwork ticks all the boxes for me. The one thing I wish they had thought about is an easy access to the CM and be able to swap them for different use cases: when I want to preserve battery and speed is not a big deal - cm5. When I want some additional power - pull out the cm4 and toss in a 5 instead.

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tartoran 5 days ago | parent [-]

I wish there was access to swap the batteries without having to unscrew the back plate. I got mine after the long waiting period and was initially excited but eventually it became a dust collector as I don't have a usecase for it. It is also quite heavy to lug around in a pocket or something like that.

	▲	axegon_ 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Tbh I never thought of that but yeah, it would be nice. Hypothetically if you have a 3d printer, you can modify this guy's designs and add a removable battery cover: https://github.com/strtfnst/uConsole-Parts Personally I got the lora-gps-wifi-sdr expansion board and I found that he had a design to cover the otherwise exposed top of the port, I modified it a bit so that I have direct access to the power button(his covers the power indicator, which I hate) and trimmed it off a bit cause it was too bulky for my likings. That said, you have a point. The reason why I've got a rpi4 as opposed to 5 is partially because of the thermals but also partially because of the battery life. You know what, I might actually work on that when I have some time to spare.