Chicken and egg?
The Pi5 clearly needs more than 15W to implement its design goals with the available (affordable) silicon.
For good design reasons, the Pi5 remains a 5V device, with no option for a higher voltage input.
So, those clever people at RPL launched the product with an accompanying high quality, low cost, 5V 5A supply -- which, being USB-PD compliant, can also be used in other circumstances.
Now, it is quite open for other vendors to launch a compatible USB-PD supply with a 5V 5A mode. Few have -- I don't know why not, but maybe they find it difficult to compete on price and quality, or maybe they think the Pi5 market is too small to bother.
Either way, it is not a "vendor lock-in" when the supply spec follows an open, non-proprietary standard. Go ask your favoured PSU supplier why they don't have anything suitable -- and please tell us what they say, if it's printable. It's not a Pi problem.
The Pi5 clearly needs more than 15W to implement its design goals with the available (affordable) silicon.
For good design reasons, the Pi5 remains a 5V device, with no option for a higher voltage input.
So, those clever people at RPL launched the product with an accompanying high quality, low cost, 5V 5A supply -- which, being USB-PD compliant, can also be used in other circumstances.
Now, it is quite open for other vendors to launch a compatible USB-PD supply with a 5V 5A mode. Few have -- I don't know why not, but maybe they find it difficult to compete on price and quality, or maybe they think the Pi5 market is too small to bother.
Either way, it is not a "vendor lock-in" when the supply spec follows an open, non-proprietary standard. Go ask your favoured PSU supplier why they don't have anything suitable -- and please tell us what they say, if it's printable. It's not a Pi problem.
Statistics: Posted by davidcoton — Thu Jan 02, 2025 5:06 pm