Going to go for a carputer!

lol yea good luck with that... let us know how it goes & obvi pic's when you got it all done so i can get an idea!

I have put the idea in the Site Ideas section so if you would like to see a subsection then please put your opinions in there as they could get lost/ not seen here.
With the power thing that would mean that you would have to wait for the comp to boot everytime you get into the car. you need to put it into sleep mode and wire to the ignition so it wakes up when engine cranked this can be done i have the instructions for how to do this with the power regulator i will try and write a guide when i get the time.
And you are saying that tiny xp isnt quite legal i didny know that

Can any of you Help
http://www.fiatforum.com/computing/1...ml#post1544309

Certain Cellphones can do all this at around the same price?

What 8" touch screen, 120gb Harddrive, 2gb Ram, wireless net, DVD/CD, Fm radio, Digital TV/Radio, Mp3 player, bluetooth and the ability to send all in high quality digital sound for my ICE, it is all on one easy to use large screen which is done by touch, not navigation key and it is illegal to use your phone whilst driving in the UK but not to use an installed computer.
But if you can get me a phone that can do all of that and more then i have Three.

Just about configured Centrafuse with the pc, got a fairly quick boot up of about 12 to 18 seconds straight into centrafuse software. Below is a couple of pics of it setup outside of the car. I have already run the cables down the side of the car via the internal trims.

On the fascia i have added the mount for the screen, so i can still have my stereo installed along with the screen as well.

My cell has 2gig storage space, voice commands(removing need for touch), bluetooth, fm radio (and I can get it a FM transmitter if I want), 3g for internet etc.
Use it in conjunction with a cheap fm radio and all it dosent do from your list is play DVD movies on a big screen (Altho I can convert them to play on the cell if I want).

Oh and this is not a new technology phone, the newer ones have wifi and many other things you would need to add to the pc.

Each to his own

thats a ncie wee set up though i thought your was a dedicated car pc, so your keeping the car sound system standard and just adding this to it?

the car pc has much more expandability, ive the iphone myself which still doesnt come near to the spec and possibilities of a pc

though now that i have the SDK it would be possible with some more programming skills to rewrite OBD for linux and create a program in the iphone. if only