pardilav, thanks for the review! That's good to know.

OK, I went ahead and bought a Beelink U59 pc mini. It seems to be exactly like the one DJ bought in post #1. Only I got maxed it out with 16gigs ram. It's much faster and stronger then the Rock Pi X I am currently running onboard my robot and headless.

I'll Also be running this new SBC onboard my robot and headless. It comes with Windows 11 Pro. All the setup tips and advice here discuss running "Win 10" on a SBC. There is even a Lite Win 10 ISO offered for download that DJ put together for us.

So, considering that I now have a much stronger SBC then the Rick Pi X I was using, does anyone know if I should down grade from my current Win 11 Pro to the Lite Win 10 ISO offered?

If I keep my current Win 11 ISO are the recommendations for performance and storage and the other tips for running ARC on a SBC still the same as what is offered here for Win 10?

I got impatient and contacted Synthiam CS with this question. They got right back to me and said I would probably be happier with Win 10. After playing around in Win 11 I have to agree. So I'm off to relearn how to downgread to Win 10. Thanks for the quick help!!

Ok, After a lot of playing around I got my Beelink U59 downgraded to Windows 10. I like this version a lot better then 11. It's familiar to me and all the information presented here in the Support section on how to set up a SBC and run Headless pertains and works.

I don't have the skills or patience anymore and couldn't figure how to install the Windows 10 Lite ISO for ARC that DJ provides in the Support section of "Tips to Make a Robot" found here: LINK . That file is over 4GB and the file limit size of the Fat32 formatted flash drive I was using is 4GB. The flash drive would not accept the file. I reformatted the flash drive to exfat format (which has a file limit of 16TB) and then was able to get the file on the drive. However when I tried to boot from it, the windows file would not start the install process. I think I needed to somehow make that flash drive "Bootable" and then add DJ's windows lite file? Anyway I gave up at that point.

I found and used the Microsoft Media Creation Tool that made the process very easy to install Windows. It allows you to create installation media (USB drive or DVD) to install a new copy of Windows 10. This worked perfectly. It automatically formatted and set up my 16GB thumb drive to install any version of Windows 10 available. When I booted from that flash drive I was able to quickly install the Home Version of Win 10 over Win 11.

Installing a full version of Windows 10 on my Beelink is not an issue as far as space is concerned. It has a 500 GB HD and I have plenty of space left after install. The only concern I have in mot using DJ's Lite ISO version of Win 10 is he put a lot of effort in trimming it down by removing everything not needed and turning off services. I did follow the performance and storage tips here: Link but I haven't worked at turning off unneeded services. Maybe later. However this little Beelink U59 is so snappy I may just leave things as is. It blows the Rock Pi X I was using out of the water in speed and graphics performance.

One other hurdle I had to jump were the Drivers for the Beelink U59. When I installed win 10 over the already working Win 11, the installation did not set up the SBC's drivers needed for it to work properly. I had no WIFI capabilities and a lot of stuff in the Device Manager was marked as not working. After digging around I was able to go to Beelink's website and get the Driver Package for this SBC. I had to manually install them though Win's Device Manager one by one. That was OK and the devices were then recognized. However I still had no WIFI or even a WIFI card being seen in Device Manager. I went back to the Beelink Driver page and found a separate U59 driver package for WIFI and Bluetooth. After downloading and installing it with a simple double click on the files I was up and fully running!

The last thing I wanted to do was make this SBC power back on automatically after power was turned off. It's advertised as havin this feature. However it needs to be turned on in the Bios. After booting into the Bios I found the setting under the Chipset tab. There's a setting called State after G3. Not very intuitive, Ugh. I had to change this start from S5 State to S0 State. Now I can shut down Windows properly, turn off the SBC. Then next day I can simply apply power to the robot  and the SBC will automatically power up (without having to push the power "On" button) and boot into windows!

Thanks @DJ for suggesting this little power house!

The BeeLink product line is good for the money.  Small boards that won’t require a large power supply and you can remove their case completely it do things like adding a heatsink or soldering connections to the board, like for a power button relocation.

I concur! Beelink had really stepped up their game the last few years