Overview

The Raspberry Pi 4 is a low-cost, credit-card-sized single-board computer. It is popular for hobbyist projects and educational purposes due to its affordability and versatility.

Role in this knowledge base

The Raspberry Pi 4 was used as the lowest-cost hardware to test the feasibility of running a local LLM, demonstrating the baseline performance limitations.

Key facts

  • It has 8GB of RAM, which is the maximum for this model, and was used with Raspbian OS.

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