I used to think some kind of ARM board and touch screen would be a great thing for AOG, and to a certain extent I still do. However a tablet has an advantage that you never have to worry about power management. Tablet is just on (and charging) all the time while you’re using it, it goes to sleep when you’re not using it. If need be you can manually shut it down. And of course take it with you easily from machine to machine.
With a computer board like the LattePanda or Raspberry Pi, you have to figure out how you want to power the thing, and how to shut it down. Commercial monitor units, for example, have full-time power, and then the keyed power acts as a signal to start it up and power it down. Even worse the Raspberry Pi has no power management features at all to my knowledge, so you can’t even suspend it to a low-power state. In fact with the Pi you can’t even power the board off from the OS (something you can do on a regular PC). I’m sure some kind of circuit could control the power to the Pi, and once the Pi signals that it’s finished the shutdown sequence, kill the power. Although I have no idea if that’s possible to do on Windows. The Pi is a neat little board, but there are better boards out there for this sort of thing, just on the power issue alone.
It’s good to know Windows 10 ARM can run AOG. I always thought Windows on ARM was limited to running software from the Microsoft Store, not unlike Windows S that’s on their x86 tablets.