Jeff Geerling
Developer Platforms and Research Tools with a focus on local compute and infrastructure.
Nutrition Label
Jeff Geerling provides rigorous, hands-on testing of developer hardware and local AI infrastructure. He excels at exposing real-world friction points, such as driver failures or memory bottlenecks, that marketing materials often omit.
Strengths
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Notes
- !Build logs feature deep benchmarking, while news commentary relies more on secondary sources.
- !Review units are clearly disclosed; check video descriptions for specific sponsorship details.
Rating Breakdown
Breakdown across the key dimensions we rate. Methodology →
Recent Videos
I built a new clock, and now I'm not sure what time it is
Pretty Fly for a Spy Pi
AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet
Testing Hugging Face's Raspberry Pi-powered open source robot
Raspberry Pi Laptop: Great execution, terrible timing
ElevenLabs just got nuked by open source
AI this, AI that, Here's Raspberry Pi's new AI HAT
$1m server vs $600 router
A tiny AI supercomputer for your desk
NIST's NTP clock was microseconds from disaster
Do you need a whole PC to run a GPU?
Apple didn't have to go this hard...
Why is Raspberry Pi only selling this in China?
This is not a Framework Laptop
The RAM Shortage Comes for Us All
Why this rating
Evidence receipts showing why each dimension is rated the way it is.
“RDMA over TB5 is great... when it works”[11:34] →
Demonstrates real-world friction and instability rather than a sanitized press-release demo.
“The operating system only sees 16 gigs... the other 16 gigs is reserved exclusively for the NPU. You can't change that.”[07:42] →
Discovering and explaining a major hardware limitation (missing RAM) that isn't obvious from the spec sheet.
“The Pi 5, and by extension the CM5, does not support S3 sleep states... you close the lid, the screen turns off, but the Pi keeps running.”[07:33] →
Identifies a specific, technical hardware limitation that affects the core usability of the device as a laptop.
“"I want to thank EDAtec for sending both this dev board and a lone CM0 for testing. Without them, I don't think I'd ever be able to show these things to you."”[01:05] →
“"I followed up asking a Pi engineer about it... He said the CM0 would compete with the Pi Zero 2 for LPDDR2 memory, which is in shorter supply these days."”[03:01] →