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toof Forums Junkie Location: Newcastle Registered: July 2003	Re: Computer setups in cars Wed, 06 April 2005 08:57 the touch screens connect AND emulate a mouse device at least all the commerical POS stuff does. you can see i sell POS you can hunt down little 8-12" touch panels that are designed for POS use but im sure you could adapt. the VIA based gear would be perfect for this application low power consumption, just enough oomph, small space and low heat. water cooling from your engine coolant would be impracticle as the water is HOTTER then the ideal temperatiure you want the gear to be running at hence you would be heating rather then cooling your computer gear. simple air cooling would be more then sufficent for this application. esp if you are runinng VIA based mini computers. also keep in mind it is illegal to have a display visible when you are dirivng unless it is specifically a navagation system. id certainly like the video recording but the problem is that all the cameras you would adapt to it arnt really up to the task. the first sort of cameras that would be really suitable are the miniDV style camers which dont exactly intergrate nicely and they have their own recodring facility anyway making the ocmputer setup fairly reduntant. i prob wouldnt run windows on it rather a linux distribution of some flavour (take your preference on dist) as you could make it run in a much more liight weight fasion then windows and also have it running eleganty in the desired lower resolution to suit the small screen. no need for a touch pad, touch screens do that for you, [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Computer setups in cars	Merudo	Wed, 06 April 2005 04:35
	Re: Computer setups in cars	justcallmefrank	Wed, 06 April 2005 04:53
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Merudo	Wed, 06 April 2005 05:03
	Re: Computer setups in cars	rthy	Wed, 06 April 2005 05:05
	Re: Computer setups in cars	justcallmefrank	Wed, 06 April 2005 05:05
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Merudo	Wed, 06 April 2005 05:10
	Re: Computer setups in cars	justcallmefrank	Wed, 06 April 2005 05:17
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Merudo	Wed, 06 April 2005 05:21
	Re: Computer setups in cars	justcallmefrank	Wed, 06 April 2005 05:23
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Merudo	Wed, 06 April 2005 05:29
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Dale_ta22	Wed, 06 April 2005 07:29
	Re: Computer setups in cars	CrUZsida	Wed, 06 April 2005 07:32
	Re: Computer setups in cars	justcallmefrank	Wed, 06 April 2005 05:32
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Merudo	Wed, 06 April 2005 05:40
	Re: Computer setups in cars	rthy	Wed, 06 April 2005 05:45
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Merudo	Wed, 06 April 2005 05:49
	Re: Computer setups in cars	smt_007	Wed, 06 April 2005 05:34
	Re: Computer setups in cars	justcallmefrank	Wed, 06 April 2005 05:41
	Re: Computer setups in cars	CrUZsida	Wed, 06 April 2005 05:59
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Merudo	Wed, 06 April 2005 06:13
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Major Clod	Wed, 06 April 2005 06:21
	Re: Computer setups in cars	CrUZsida	Wed, 06 April 2005 06:26
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Merudo	Wed, 06 April 2005 06:33
	Re: Computer setups in cars	rthy	Wed, 06 April 2005 08:42
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Merudo	Wed, 06 April 2005 08:49
	Re: Computer setups in cars	rthy	Wed, 06 April 2005 08:51
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Major Clod	Wed, 06 April 2005 06:35
	Re: Computer setups in cars	CrUZsida	Wed, 06 April 2005 06:44
	Re: Computer setups in cars	EldarO	Wed, 06 April 2005 07:02
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Dale_ta22	Wed, 06 April 2005 08:16
	Re: Computer setups in cars	justcallmefrank	Wed, 06 April 2005 08:25
	Re: Computer setups in cars	CrUZsida	Wed, 06 April 2005 08:26
	Re: Computer setups in cars	justcallmefrank	Wed, 06 April 2005 08:28
	Re: Computer setups in cars	CrUZsida	Wed, 06 April 2005 08:30
	Re: Computer setups in cars	toof	Wed, 06 April 2005 08:57
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Major Clod	Wed, 06 April 2005 10:49
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Allan	Wed, 06 April 2005 11:44
	Re: Computer setups in cars	clubagreenie	Wed, 06 April 2005 12:01
	Re: Computer setups in cars	gearb0x	Wed, 06 April 2005 12:51
	Re: Computer setups in cars	gearb0x	Wed, 06 April 2005 13:10
	Re: Computer setups in cars	beterthenu	Wed, 06 April 2005 13:18
	Re: Computer setups in cars	tadpole	Wed, 06 April 2005 15:52
	Re: Computer setups in cars	checks202	Wed, 06 April 2005 15:54
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Les	Wed, 06 April 2005 23:07
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Merudo	Thu, 07 April 2005 00:24
	Re: Computer setups in cars	ehendrikd	Thu, 07 April 2005 01:04
	Re: Computer setups in cars	GtiRboy	Thu, 07 April 2005 16:21
	Re: Computer setups in cars	fingers	Fri, 08 April 2005 01:57
	Re: Computer setups in cars	RobST162	Fri, 08 April 2005 02:22
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Major Clod	Fri, 08 April 2005 03:03
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Merudo	Fri, 08 April 2005 03:54
	Re: Computer setups in cars	ehendrikd	Fri, 08 April 2005 03:32
	Re: Computer setups in cars	fingers	Fri, 08 April 2005 03:38
	Re: Computer setups in cars	EldarO	Fri, 08 April 2005 15:10
	Re: Computer setups in cars	ViPeR_NiPPleX	Fri, 08 April 2005 02:27
	Re: Computer setups in cars	GtiRboy	Fri, 08 April 2005 02:38
	Re: Computer setups in cars	fingers	Fri, 08 April 2005 03:23
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Alchemist	Fri, 08 April 2005 12:08
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Hirogen	Sun, 10 April 2005 07:06
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Dale_ta22	Sun, 10 April 2005 14:36
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Alchemist	Sun, 10 April 2005 15:07
	Re: Computer setups in cars	Hirogen	Sun, 10 April 2005 14:51

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