In Car PC for GU :) this is fantastic.

or this one

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Is that in yours Truckie?

Saw a 1gig solid state hard drive the other day. Realy nice job very impressed. is the key board IR so you can get it done for the more key stroke intensive stuff ?

looks great.howmuch in total and where can you get it done?????????

There are some amazing Car PC installations happening at the moment.
check out this site

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Hi Guy’s
Anyone interested in a car PC should consider one of the Lilliput systems that are available from Extreme Audio Electronics Ltd on ebay. Site Link
These systems are excellent and come in at around AU$1000 and when combined with an LCD 7” in dash touch screen, could be had for around $1500. Still a considerable amount of cash, but when you consider the capabilities, they are incredible.
I built my system on the cheap, as a project to see if it was practical and possible to run a PC in a car off an inverter, because I was told it wouldn’t work. Well it’s been working every day now for a couple of months.
A few issues to consider are hard drives and their mounting, so I used a 30Gb laptop drive and mounted it on it’s side, no problems so far, but I haven’t done the Gibb River Road yet. Be interesting to see how it goes crossing the Simpson in July!
Also power supply’s can be an issue. I’m using a Micro ATX 70watt PSU with a 150Watt inverter as mentioned before, but I may consider one of the 250Watt 12 Volt DC/DC PC power supplies that Jaycar are now offering.
Running a PC in the car gives you endless music, video’s and navigation possibilities, and now I’ve found free internet all over the place with a wireless network adaptor.
No time to drive anymore!

Chaz
Thanks Bruce.

That looks neat.

My solution is to use an NEC T400 tablet PC. The screen is 10.4 inch, the unit weighs 1kg, it has a 20Gig HDD for all the maps and photos, a compact flash card reader built in and 3 USB ports, and its got wireless networking. Theres no need for the keyboard, because the screen is also touchscreen.


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Been using it for over a year now in the farm truck - it forms the lid of my console. They don't make them any more, and the processor etc is a bit outdated but theres plenty of tablet PCs out there.

Cheers
phil!MPG:23!

I'm also using a laptop as the doner computer, the hdd's can take a real bashing.
The whole thing's really built for travelling. The power supply is easy to sort out without an inverter needed. I run the speaker out into my stereo. The screen is one of those ex-audio 7" touchscreens. A word on that, it works great, but the first one that arrived from HongKong was faulty, I sent it back and had a new one about 2 weeks later.
I'm trying to get hold of some of the plugs it uses so I can have an outlet in the back (my 4x4 is a part time camper - bed and 2 chairs in the back :-)

I had to make the external USB hub power supply, but everything else I bought and put together. I didn't find a front end that was easy to use and did what I wanted (which isn't much) so I've just got a neat standard XP install with the icons I use most on the desktop.

I get all my music, turn by turn navigating as well as moving map, dvd's and other movies, which is about all I want from it for now. If I could get reasonably priced mobile internet for it I'd be chuffed. What do you guys use?