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I think Visuals will be a priority in a lot of people's mind -- I think a lot of the carputer folks are keen on 'showing off' their stuff, which is perfectly fine. (as with lots of hobbies). Another group of people like myself are mainly about enjoying the benefits from having a carputer (Music, Navi, etc.) and will pay little attention to visuals.
Like you said, it is hard to please everyone. I think it is a great idea to use pre-existing visuals (i.e. Sonique), rather than spending time trying to code your own, or code SDKs... I really think there will be a minority of people with the knowledge, time, and energy to code a new visual if an SDK was available, so might not be worthwhile. Not that it's a bad idea though, just a matter of deciding where to spend your time coding, I guess.
I hardly used the old visuals. I would definitely use them for a secondary screen (i.e. in the back) if I had one, though. It would keep others entertained, and it would not be distracting to the driver.
Cannot speak about performance, I have a fast Carputer (~2.4+ Ghz Athlon XP), and all worked fine.
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