"Ottavio Caruso"  wrote

| My current Thinkpad is dying and I was wondering if the Raspberry Pi 4-B
| 8GB would be a half-decent laptop replacement, obviously with the
| addition of a portable monitor (suggestions?) and an external drive.
|

   I find it perfectly usable running it through a TV
screen with wireless keyboard/mouse on a tray,
while I sit on the sofa. Doing the same with a monitor
would work just as well. Firefox and Thunderbird seem
to work fine.

   The biggest issue to my mind is that it's an ARM
CPU. That means any other common software probably
won't work. Word processing? OK. But printing? I
don't know. Image editing? I doubt it. ARM is mostly
used for limited service-type devices like phones and
tablets.

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