I am thinking of using one of these small panel pc in my dash. It seems to have a lot of features I need at a good price. It is on sale now for $786.
http://www.digitaltechinc.com/afolux..._panel_pc.html
It is cheap and solves a lot of packaging problems in a very small case.
It runs WinCE, XPE and Linux and has WiFi and Bluetooth, USB interfaces and RS232 or RS485 also.
Has anyone used one of these? Comments?