Cheapest car pc ever.

**pandy** · 07-13-2006, 02:10 AM

Originally Posted by Rafster

Something I just noticed....

No vga....

Peace,

Rafster

No, that's very true.. as I said, beginner carpc

However, the quality of the RCA and Svideo on this is minty, really really nice (the best image I have ever seen on a TV that comes from anything remotely PC like)

I suppose this would knob touch screen usage, but then the wireless keyboard for this does pretty much everything and you can always add in a USB mouse

**pandy** · 07-13-2006, 02:18 AM

Originally Posted by Rafster

No vga....

You may just be wrong there Rafster me old pal.

Who wants to solder a VGA onto these and find out?

Now this sits right next to the other outputs, and I would imagine it's definitely a VGA solderpoint.. whether it functions? give me a few days

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**shotgunefx** · 07-13-2006, 03:58 AM

Interesting idea.

Originally Posted by pandy

...and then use that to multiboot using the lizard or whatever it is called boot loader (or was it lilo? its been a while but linux basically allows you to create a boot menu with multiple OS's..)...

LILO (LInux LOader)

**_dopehead_** · 07-13-2006, 07:01 AM

damn, none of the ones on sale @ ebay will ship to europe, they are all US/Canada only :-(

**SnyperBob** · 07-13-2006, 07:45 AM

Originally Posted by pandy

Who wants to solder a VGA onto these and find out?

Yes, that's a VGA header. Make sure you solder in the correct resistors if you are going to play with it.

**emigrating** · 07-13-2006, 07:54 AM

Originally Posted by _dopehead_

damn, none of the ones on sale @ ebay will ship to europe, they are all US/Canada only :-(

I found several that would ship to Europe.. Only thing is shipping-costs, something like $60 per unit.. Making it more expensive than I'd like to pay for a paper-weight

If somehow I could get it to run WinCE 5 or embedded XP on the other hand...

**bugiman** · 07-13-2006, 08:02 AM

Originally Posted by _dopehead_

damn, none of the ones on sale @ ebay will ship to europe, they are all US/Canada only :-(

I live in Denmark, maybe we can have a discount on shipping-costs if we order two units.

**red_parchel** · 07-13-2006, 08:18 AM

very nice find! i currantly use a 3com Audry for some home automation, but i cant see it working too well for in the car.

**IntellaWorks** · 07-13-2006, 08:25 AM

Can you get the hardware specs from that thing (i.e. what intel chipset? ) If so what's stopping you from injecting the correct drivers onto an nLited Windows XP running from a CF card. Replace thier CF card with yours, there's your windows XP??