Pros and cons I guess lol. The plan for Mike's PC is to hide all traces of Windows really. Like I say, we'll be cracking on with his over the next few weeks, he'll get a thread started soon.
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Pros and cons I guess lol. The plan for Mike's PC is to hide all traces of Windows really. Like I say, we'll be cracking on with his over the next few weeks, he'll get a thread started soon.
Darren198712
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centrafuse is some good software I installed a in car pc in a Altezza yesterday it looks mint. If I was ed I would try and get AV input for his original screen and then get one of them USB touch screens from ebay and stick it over the original screen in the car once he has done that he can use a laptop like the one I have the Acer Aspire one. acer aspire one your looking at 180 with 120gb hard drive and linux.
I would use linux to boot up the system as its a lot faster. if you don't want linux I would use a slim version of windows. I am thinking of putting a PC in my car now it looks mint and the centrafuse user interface is awsome.
Laptop 180
Screen if you need one 100
in car charger for the Acer one 15
not sure how much the AV interface is
touch screen your looking at 30 quid
so to be honest I don't think its that bad
Darren
I would use linux to boot up the system as its a lot faster. if you don't want linux I would use a slim version of windows. I am thinking of putting a PC in my car now it looks mint and the centrafuse user interface is awsome.
Laptop 180
Screen if you need one 100
in car charger for the Acer one 15
not sure how much the AV interface is
touch screen your looking at 30 quid
so to be honest I don't think its that bad
Darren
No no no the original stuff is all going. I don't see how that would work Daz as it's not like the OE screen has a 'video input'. You can buy devices to input video to the screen but then that would only be useful if you want to keep the OE system, which I don't, and doesnt work for audio. As you found you had to buy a seperate head unit anyway.
You see the Sat-Nav is good, but way out of date, the audio is poor quality and featureless (CD (no RW or MP3) and Radio only), the climate control is a gimick, and overall it's a very inefficient use of space (two drives taking up two DIN slots, and controls taking up 2 DIN space, with screen uptop 2 DIN. The controls arent even that well designed). Again, your sperate head unit had to go in the glove box as there was no other space. So yeah, OE stuff is going.
You see the Sat-Nav is good, but way out of date, the audio is poor quality and featureless (CD (no RW or MP3) and Radio only), the climate control is a gimick, and overall it's a very inefficient use of space (two drives taking up two DIN slots, and controls taking up 2 DIN space, with screen uptop 2 DIN. The controls arent even that well designed). Again, your sperate head unit had to go in the glove box as there was no other space. So yeah, OE stuff is going.