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11-26-2005 | 08:34 PM

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i was at the dyno in atlanta a few years ago and this guy came in with a highly modded dodge avenger (he put down 379 rwhp). he had mounted a small pc in the trunk and wired up lcd panels into each sunvisor and a small wireless keyboard in the glove box. very cool setup, you can use it to tune the car plus use it as a navigation system, dvd player/whatever.

Yes and you will be able to do multitasking, split the screen, watch a movie, tune your car and find directions all at the same time. Believe it or not that's one of my 2006 proyects it's far from difficult. Also I will be able to surf the net at my local starbucks, from the comfort of my car .

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11-26-2005 | 08:54 PM

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Check out these little suckers:

Sony U101

We imported a few. They run XP Pro and are very easy to use.

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11-26-2005 | 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by TT

Check out these little suckers:

Sony U101

We imported a few. They run XP Pro and are very easy to use.

TT,
It says they are discontinued, no price?

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11-26-2005 | 09:59 PM

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Scootin.. perfect power makes a DOS version of the application for the SMT6.
aximsite.com has a pocket PC DOS emulator that runs the app like a charm.

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11-26-2005 | 11:36 PM

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TT,
It says they are discontinued, no price?

That sucks, we got about 5 of them back at the beginning of the year and they are nice. There are a few on ebay.

Here's one.

No, it's not one of mine.

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11-26-2005 | 11:50 PM

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Actually I think the whole idea of setting a notebook in the rear of the car or in the back seat and running a smaller lcd monitor is way better than a handheld device.

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11-27-2005 | 12:16 AM

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Here you go. This is the smallest PC I have ever used. It works great and runs windows XP right out of the box. It is made by OQO. http://www.oqo.com This thing would be great for data logging and will run any software written for XP.

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11-27-2005 | 12:20 AM

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what about this one:

http://www.qsicorp.com/vehicle.html

check this link also:

http://www.cartft.com/community/examples

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11-27-2005 | 11:11 AM

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Here is the rig that I will be putting in.

http://www.fpdisplay.com/product/vie...company=Delong

http://www.mp3car.com/store/product_...b23c4e654cd87d

http://www.mp3car.com/store/product_...products_id=72

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11-27-2005 | 03:42 PM

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por4ever, thanks for the links to mp3car.com. A lot of good info there and in their forum. Didn't even have a clue these dedicated car computers existed. More than enough hp to run a monitoring/tuning program without having to worry about your laptop flying all over the place + you could also install a nav program etc.

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11-28-2005 | 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by special tool

Tony - I am not having any computer problems - just looking for smaller pc ideas.

Yes, understood but if you have devices with 9 way serial interfaces in the car you may get into trouble. I have a small Sony (getting old now - Vaio PCG-C1VE) and it wont work with some software and the USB/serial convertor. All small PC's I have looked at do not have a 9 way serial port.
Tony

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