Blasphemy here, but going to say it… Is there a way to WoR one of these cm4 driven devices? I’ll admit that I’ve never fooled for WoR yet, so I have no idea what it takes to just get Windows on a regular Pi, let alone all the other bits inside a uconsole. Due to the display resolution, I don’t think this would be good on Devterm.
I’d be curious about that too. Quite some time ago I tried it on a Pi 400 (the one with built in keyboard and while it worked, it was more of a novelty. Speed was not exactly great, but it was usable. Still kinda cool that it worked at all, but I went back to Linux since I didn’t have a use for the somewhat crippled Windows experience on it. I don’t remember the details but I know some of the hardware wasn’t supported then, like maybe wifi and bluetooth? That may have changed in years since… Also at the time i was running the hacked up Win10 instead of Win11 which they moved to later. I’m not sure if audio worked either. And I seem to remember that booting from USB was required, which was possible on the Pi but isn’t possible on the uConsole, at least for Linux so I’m assuming the same would be true for Windows.
My guess is you’d not have a working display, unless you got lucky and the external HDMI worked. That was working on regular Pis back when I tried it so it probably works on the CM4 now, and maybe even in the uConsole. Audio likely wouldn’t work. Also, it’s doubtful there’d be video acceleration of any kind, which I think is why it was rather slow when I messed with it before. The UI was usable for simple stuff but you’d probably not be watching youtube or playing video’s on it. I’d imagine battery life would be poor as well.
So unless they’ve made a lot of progress on that project, my guess is it might run as a headless server (with external HDMI), take a performance hit, might lack audio and some wireless, and probably not last long on batteries. I’d be shocked if the optional 4G expansion was detected or usable. And unless someone active in the WoR team had a uConsole themselves and a passion to get it working better, chances of ever seeing working drivers would be lower than next day shipping of devices from ClockworkPi.
WoR was still pretty cool to mess with though, and I was surprised it worked at all, and as well as it did. But several years ago when I tried it there wasn’t much hope of it becoming a “daily driver” any time soon. Probably better to go with one of those modern versions of x86 handheld PCs or maybe even a Steam Deck or its clones depending on portability and usability needs, or a small laptop.