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KingCody


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my car PC (in a 2007 Ford Fusion). the pic is a Lilliput EBY701 touchscreen VGA monitor connected to my old Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop in the trunk. no keyboard or mouse needed, everthing is controlled through the touchscreen interface
· Date: June 18, 2007 · Views: 7796 · Filesize: 34.7kb, 57.5kb · Dimensions: 640 x 512 ·
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vnf4ultra
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June 19, 2007 06:52 Rating: 8 

Cool mod, I've thought about doing a carputer, but I always come back to two problems. First, I'm afraid my hard drive will crash if I hit a bump(and SSDs are too expensive), and second, I can't find enough uses for it that my headunit can't already do. WiFi syncing of my music at home while I'm parked would be awesome though. I do think carputers are really cool though. I've seen some really neat stuff over at the mp3car forums.



Looks like a DEH-P490IB down below, nice unit.
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KingCody
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June 19, 2007 15:58

can't find enough uses??? there are so many uses for a car PC; fullscreen GPS navigation, music, video/DVD, back-up/rearview camera, night vision, engine/car OBDII diagnostic reading & sensor reading, video games, etc. etc. etc... since I'm keeping a head unit, my main use for the PC will be GPS navigation, and i'll be adding an OBDII module and back-up camera to it in the near future



also, you're right it is a DEH-P490IB.. it's a nice yet basic head unit, I chose it because I wanted the focal point to be the computer screen, and not a fancy looking head unit.
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Obi-Wan Jerkobi
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June 29, 2008 01:21

vnf4, now with the dawn of WWAN, you can now sync your music from home! And maybe you could get a 16GB Compact Flash card and get a CF/IDE adapter! There! Problema solved. And maybe some semi-expensive anti-shock mounting for the HD, preferable a laptop one.
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