Okay, some may think this is a crazy idea, but are we all a little mad??

So here is my idea.

Remove Stereo deck and storage spot below. Replace with 7 in Lilliput touch screen monitor. Remove CD-changer in glove box, replace with small form factor (mini-itx) 1.3 Ghz Via motherboard and cpu. My idea is to have this computer run windows xp, have a "drive-soft" clone running on it and offer music, dvds, gps, rear-view camera, wireless internet, bluetooth (not sure if I can get that to work with phone though...) and anything else we can think of.

Suggestions and ideas are much needed and appreciated.

Thanks!

Steve

 

if you do put the cpu in there, make sure to keep air space for the fans, or you will over heat your comp and cause it to shut down...

 

No its not a bad idea, but please search the forum. This has been discussed else where. One member even did an OEM look in his CLK.

 

You know what would be sweet. If I had that new air conditioned glove box they've got in the passat. Don't care for vw very much, but damn that was a good idea.

 

why not just find a way to put a mac mini w/ an intel core into it? they run xp now a days and that thing is going for 574 right now on techbargains.com.

i dunno about the touch screen part, itd be stinkin cool though

 

You can do absolutely anything you can imagine to a car. The only limit is the amount of money you're willing to invest

 

Then you can put an "Intel Inside" windshield banner... They have new nano-itx motherboards that are about 5" square. Here's a website where the guy did what you want to do http://www.cartft.com/community/dock...n/carpcbasics/

 

Why not get an Apple Mac Mini http://www.apple.com/macmini/
all you need for the display is anything with a dvi-d connector
I/O? Voice recognition software is built into OS X
then again, so is dvd/cd playback and burn....
You can even run Windows if you really need to.

 

Wow that's sweet............almost makes me want to do this mod.....hehe

 

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