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I already owned an IBM thinkpad that had a dead screen, I had a car power supply for it and the docking station. All I needed to buy was a motorized touch-screen. Fortunately my car has a double din space (Mark 5 'Lude) and my head unit is also a dvd player (with usb flash card and SD card support) and sports 5.1 surround. I mainly use the carputer for sat-nav, the occasional DivX, wi-fi web browsing and a few games (using a cordless pad). I do have music on it..but I mostly just chuck a dvd full of mp3's into the head unit tbh. I bought a usb freeview tv tuner, a usb bluetooth dongle, a pcmcia usb2 hub and i replaced the pcmcia wi-fi card with a usb one (the transceiver now resides inside the nearside wing mirror). The install was easy painless, quick and above all...cheap. I'd highly recommend using an old laptop if you have one lying around (or can find one on ebay).
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