Thread: Planning system...q. about touchscreen

Greetings board,

Last week I found a 7" by 7" by 18" compartment behind the seat of my MR2 (the older ferrari looking one, not the new Boxter-ish Spyder), that already had cable conduit run up behind the dash under the carpet (it is where the stock subwoofer would be if I had one). This triggered a credit-card-spending-spree, and I am now the proud owner of:

Via M10000 w/512 Megs of DDR Ram-$250
Opus 150 PSU - $200
Power Acoustik 5.6" TFT LCD-$150
Maxtor 80gig HD--already own

I already have a Head Unit with inputs that I am going to move to the glove compartment, and then custom machine an aluminum bezel to fit the LCD into the double DIN.

My question is this: What input methods do you guys recomend? My wet dream for this system would be a touchscreen so that the only thing that shows is my screen--and maybe a half keyboard in case i need to do any actual typing.

Have any of you had good experiences with the digitalww touchscreen kit? No offense to digitalww, but I see quite a few problems posted--I realize people don't feel the need to post "works great, everything is fine" and only post when they have problems, but I'm still curious if anybody can recomend it.

Can anyone suggest anything that I might have missed in my install? Any comments on my setup? I tried to do everything right the first time--I love having no bills and a good job. I'm thinking about adding a panasonic slot loading DVD player to it.

Thanks for all your info, you've saved me some grief already--based on your recomendations, I canceled my order for the 60watt PSU board and switched to an Opus.

I look forward to playing with and making new skins for Media Engine, and becoming an active member of the board.

~fool out