Raspberry Pi 5 Review: A New Standard for Makers

For sure, it’s one of the characteristics that distinguishes a Pi as a server from a regular old, much cheaper, laptop.

> This sounds like a pretty big negative to me

It might be possible to take a page out of macbook's playbook and put together a case that doubles as a heat sink. It's a tradeoff between compactness and target temperature.

By the way, the RPi4 had already a very nasty overheating issue.

That also sounds just plain wrong.

> https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/

> Raspberry Pi 5 has been designed to handle typical client workloads, uncased, with no active cooling.

For "untypical loads" you can get a case and/or a fan or just make it run slightly slower.

I thought this, but when I went to my local online stores, piHut and Pimoroni and they all had pi4 stock.

Yes, there are many. rpilocator showed back in July[1] that there were more than 1k units available (all rpi combined, not just rpi4). There's a lot of stock available[2].

[1]: https://mastodon.social/@rpilocator/110792099249851844

[2]: https://rpilocator.com/?cat=PI4&instock