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Cool idea... but a $750 reserve :rollin: sounds high.. for a piece of plexiglass and a power inverter... You could build a faster one for less I would think. Plus a smaller formfactor too. Why not just mount it all in the trunk? With a wireless mouse and keyboard it wouldn't really matter. So do I need to put an old P3 system in my tbird now.. lol
7" screen. You'll need binoculars to see the icons, and a telescope to see the mouse pointer.
Hard drive. You're not even supposed to gently tilt a home system with the drive spinning. I'd love to see the head crash after a supermarket speed bump.
Mouse moves with hand movement. Oops, I wiped my hard drive while shifting to 3rd.
Screwed to a plexiglass sheet. Doesn't plexi create a lot of static electricity? And we all know how much computers love static electricity.
And almost 700 people have looked at it. :rollin:
You could get around the hard drive thing by using a laptop drive - they're designed to withstand a bit of shock. Temperature would be a different matter entirely, though...
If I was gonna build an in-car PC I think I'd just get one of those Mico ATX rigs and mount it in the trunk.
The screensize isn't bad considering its native resolution is most likely vga or wvga. From more than a foot away, text would have to be enlarged. Who needs to use it while driving anyways?
There are many ways to use harddrives in areas with a lot of movement. A common one is mounting it, or the entire computer, in a box with rubber/bungee type cables making the computer "float". DIY or commercial. My dad had to deal with this when he was looking into making his recording studio more mobile. Its effective and works well.
I'd never use plexiglas for a computer case, indoors or not. Who needs to see their computer anyways? (and I hate the fact that its almost impossible to find decent cases without windows now)