PCIe does fix the main complaint most people have with Raspberry Pis: the lack of reliable storage. While USB is perfectly fine for spinning rust, it's not quite ideal for SSDs, and we all have an SD card failure story or two.
It's interesting that the PCIe lane can be driven at PCIe 3.0 speeds. That goes a long way to helping to make up for the fact that it's just one lane. Having used various PCIe cards on a RockPro64, it's nice to see more options.
I'm a little surprised that UEFI isn't available at launch, but here's to hoping that won't take too long.
Good stuff, and I'm happy to see the progress. I just wish the company hadn't gone off the deep end.
Does the pi 4 even have official UEFI? I thought it was a third-party thing.
I think jeff did this testing on a pre-release firmware, so that and other features may be coming.
Not official as in it doesn't come from the Raspberry Pi people, but official as in it's what everyone who wants UEFI uses.
Sending Pi 5s to people who're going to review them before the release makes sense, but of course it'd have been nice if they sent them to people who contribute important pieces of the ecosystem, too.