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The Display:
The touch screen functionality keeps you from having to deal with a mouse in your car. Being 12 volt, it natively works with your car's power. The monitor has better visibility in high-brightness conditions than you will find in most LCDs. |
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The DVD:
Slimline DVD Drive. The drive we chose can handle every imaginable format of discs short of blue ray and HDDVD. Its 2 meg buffer isn't huge, but you could certainly burn music for your passengers while you drive. Not that we endorse driving distracted or burning music for your friends. |
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The GPS
Pharos pB010 USB iGPS Receiver. This GPS has been quite accurate on the road. It acquires immediately and keeps up well when you are driving around. Combine it with map point, and you can get turn-by-turn directions, travel speed, and even find restaurants on the move. You could even tie it into Google Earth if you want. |
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The WIFI:
Zonet 802.11b Usb Wireless. This little thing finds lots of networks that are in the area. I pulled into my garage and had a list of about 50 networks it found on my commute home. I realized right away how much fun you can have with this kind of thing. You will have to download an update to the drivers to make it compatible with Net Stumbler or use a community approved wardriving set up. |
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The Power Supply:
Automotive 160W DC-DC Power Supply. A specialized power supply is set up to safely shut the computer down when the main power source is cut off. If you wire it with two hot lines and a switch on your primary line, you can run it off the battery. If you wire it with the primary power coming from the accessory, and a hot for the secondary you will have the computer on whenever your car is running. Wiring it through the accessory is nice, though I do wish I could leave the computer on when I make a quick run into a convenience store or something. The dual hot wiring configuration would let you do that without leaving your keys in the ignition. |
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The Drive Adapter:
Slimline CD to 42pin IDE Adapter. We needed this adapter to get our DVD drive to hook up to our motherboard. The adapter resulted in some tight spacing with the CPU fan requiring a slight relocation of the fan. |
Tools that we used ( i.e. you may want to use as well )
One note on power tools: use them at your own risk. Be sure to read and understand any and all documentation on the tools you use. No amount of documentation can make up for experience, but there are many people with serious eye injuries from the school of hard knocks. If you don't know what you are doing, don't do it, and find someone that can help.
Screwdrivers
Pliers
Razor
Drill
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