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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.

> 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.

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

Power efficiency? I doubt your old laptop is as efficient as a pi.

Hence the “one of” part of my comment. But the cooling and noise are definitely relevant.

Raspberry pis use a lot less power too