In Car PC

[danhock]

Anyone interested in these products?

http://www.freetech.com.tw/product/sub-carpc.html

Comes with either the LCD in the sun visor or seperate...

Hopefully they'll be abour ?600 or so...

[Overseer]

cool

i have an epia itx machine at home as a server

i like the idea of having another battery in the car (run of a relay charge type thing) and having it on in the car, and being able to connect to it over wireless, so at home or work i could copy things to it and use it like a moveable storage centre.. and play music from it

[danhock]

As its a PC you could use Bluetooth or Wireless networking to transfer MP3's.

You could also add GPS to it very easily and cheaply.

[davidhawkins_78]

If this is your kinda thing then check this out !!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4120731983&category=3698

Got a friend who's building a pc in to his car using one of these LCD touch screens - got a GPS module - usual PC stuff - should be quite phat, yet simple too.

[lowgolf]

Im building one at the moment, my brother has got me a LCD screen from work, ive aquired a laptop motherboard with 833Mhz cpu. Got 10GB hardrive in. Just got to itstall it all into the glovebox and put win XP on it.  

[danhock]

Have you got a Power Invertor?

[lowgolf]

the laptops 12v. I wont need one.

[danhock]

It'll be the wrong current and wont it need AC?

[lowgolf]

I thought because laptops ran off 12v bats they would be DC anyway. Was gonner sack off the bat and just wire my car bat straight in to the power on the mohterboard. Might smoke it. Have to have another think.

[danhock]

I think you would smoke it....
Normally a notebook requires about 2-5 amps... You connect it to the battery (about 30amps+) you will smoke it.

Get an ivertor, they are about ?40