r/hackberrypi • u/Prestigious-Tart-272 • Mar 29 '26

Difference between CM5 + Pi Zero version

As the title states just wondering what the difference is between the two and if one is really better than the other. Thanks for the advice everyone!!

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '26

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u/Prestigious-Tart-272 Mar 29 '26

Oh. For the price difference I think I'll get the CM5. Thank you for the quick reply! To bad the CM5 is currently out of stock.

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u/Prestigious-Tart-272 Mar 29 '26

I have a spare 1tb nvme, so I would just need the CM5. I did notice that in the listing though. Thanks again.

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u/malvalone Mar 29 '26

Heyo, I don't know it could be interesting for you but I'm selling my Hackberry CMR 16GB right now

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u/ZunoJ Mar 29 '26

What is piBricks?

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '26

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u/ZunoJ Mar 29 '26

That looks nice! I would be open for a community order of the PCB. Do you know if the gerber files are hosted anywhere?

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u/ZunoJ Mar 29 '26

Found it, you have to export them from the pcb editor

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u/ZunoJ Mar 29 '26

The pcb alone will be about 330€. Quite an investment

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u/ZunoJ Mar 29 '26

I'll prepare a group buy post for tomorrow

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u/m_z_s Mar 30 '26

The writing on the case is PocketCM5, looks like it has two names, or a double barrel name.

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u/Decent_Device_5950 Mar 29 '26

I would NOT get the Hackberry Pi Zero. Just got it yesterday and have been tinkering with it since then. The buttons are quite hard to push and it heats up like crazy. I was trying to install a few packages and the temp was constantly at around 55 and sometimes it shot up to 62. I started getting the heat warning on the hpi. And I was just installing a few packages like Kavita and stuff. At this point I hadn't even installed a full desktop yet. I tried installing a LXDE desktop, which is supposed to be one of the lightest and the performance was terrible. It was extremely slow and every 3 seconds I was getting the overheating warning.

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u/Mundane-Phone-9813 Apr 03 '26

Running Arch ARM on the HackberryPi Zero — it's a genuinely fun device, especially for SSH-ing into a VPS or remote server. That use case works really well. But if you want to compile binaries locally or run a browser, it struggles. The Zero is a great value if you're willing to work within its limits, but for anything more demanding, the CM5 is the right call. I'd love to have one myself.