Best sbc which can run windows

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calvares

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Hi,
I'm interested to make an offgrid lowpower pc system, and guess the best option is on soc, sbc. Searching on internet I found quite performant ones, but almost all are running only on linux (&sndroid). I need windows in order to install and work in softwares like: acad, bricscad, sketchup, rhino, photoshop, gimp, and even twinmotion (at least basic). Can you recommend me the best sbc which runs windows?

Thanx,
Juanitto
 
gonna be choice of either atom based cpu mini pc boxes or something like the sff desktop hp elitedesk or dell/lenovo etc equivalent. can get in i7 variants total pc power draw max is 65w using 35w cpu. those will perform very good. atom based ones with 10w cpus can give lot lower overall power consumption which may be important if your on batteries or solar etc but performance takes a hit. thats your options for windows based boxes.
 
Well, I'm willing to learn linux cad, as libracad, freecad, gimp for images, and blender for rendering, so I thought about khada edge 2 pro, but then, when I consult chatgpt, I found that the best option would be nvidia jetson nano (even the price rised x4), and second option would be nxp imx8. What do you think? Imx8 can run ubuntu and those softwares? Chatgpt insisted it does, but me I didn't find the confirmation on internet, and if it does, does it optimized for blender rendering? Jetson nano I think it's more sure from this point of view, it cost around 300 euros, while imx8 maybe could be 100 cheaper, but without software optimisation. Do you know other similar alternatives?
 
andy_mk3 said:
CAD on an sbc is going to be a miserable experience
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The only offgrid solution is soc(som)sbc , the smathphones technology, nor abaiable for windows also because it's resourcefag. Though, guess that it will be possible, I'm thinking to jetson nano on ubuntu (2D cad forsure, maybe the rendering capability will be challanging for it)
 
Stuff like the MeLe mini PCs will use very low power at idle, around 2 watt and a dozen watt or so under load and give a much better Windows experience and light to moderate productivity use.

EDIT: Some of these mini PCs have the ability to tune the power use in the BIOS as well if you prefer ultra power saving over performance or vice versa performance over power use - if you go to town on disabling stuff in Windows (or use some flavour of Linux) plus turn on all power saving features you can get really low power use out of them.
 
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