It can act as a Roon node. It can not act as your Roon server. You'd still need a computer/Nucleus/NAS/Rock to do that. Sorry if you knew that already and I misunderstood your previous message. Just assumed you were trying to bin the laptop altogether cause you said 'replace' :)
ah, will it not run Roon?
it says "Roon ready" and "Use your Roon app as your remote to control music playback through WiiM Pro."
So I'm a bit unclear as to what that means. I'm not 100% committed to Roon but it's handy to integrate local files with Tidal.