diether Posted April 23, 2006 Posted April 23, 2006 Thanks for the welcome. I went for the 700TSV XENARC/GAIN LCD Monitor which is actually unbranded as I bought it from a digital-car.co.uk forum member. Looks good and has auto on feature. Just got to get the whole thing integrated now. Quote
N8KOW Posted May 3, 2006 Posted May 3, 2006 How are people getting on with their installs? I wanna see!!!!!! Quote
speedball Posted May 3, 2006 Posted May 3, 2006 I'm seriously looking into one. A good site for you all to goto for full systems seems to be www.carcomputer.co.uk - couldn't find it for ages of looking but its the best out of all I have found. Will let you know when they send me more information Quote
mut Posted May 7, 2006 Posted May 7, 2006 yea carpcs are the way forward! i had 3 in my last 3 cars. digital-car.co.uk is an excellent resourse, and they guys there are really helpfull. tom. Quote
Beggers Posted May 8, 2006 Posted May 8, 2006 Whats the best way of routing power into the car from the battery. I want a clean, always live source. Been thinking about installing a car PC, want to go down teh DC-DC route rather than an inverter DC-AC. Looking at the opus power supplies. Also looking at a touch screen. What size is teh cubby hole? And can you use teh std cubby, or has eveyone opted for the Satnav Version. Cant decide whether to go for a windows PC, Linux or even a Mac. Possibly the new intel Macs, and have all 3 running on it. Quote
mut Posted May 8, 2006 Posted May 8, 2006 just go straight to the battery, as if you were wiring an amp, and opus supplies are nice, thats what i use. tom. Quote
Guest prescience Posted May 8, 2006 Posted May 8, 2006 Not quite sure from what angle you question is posed but this may help? http://www.350z-uk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=127 Quote
seedy Posted May 24, 2006 Posted May 24, 2006 I got my hands on MS Autoroute for the PC , it comes with a USB GPS aerial. Installation of the software is easy and when running it gets the position straight away instead of TomTom's ToGo 5 minute warm up. The maps are I believe more upto date too. My road is actually on the MS maps and I've been living here over 5 years. The downside of the package is its too complex , its full of all the bells and whistles you expect from a MS product. TTTG is much easier to use even with a small screen. I have not tried Autoroute in the car which I'll give a go sometime soon ( install it on the laptop) and pop out into the country for the day. More news later , this is Seedy signing off for the news at 10 , good night Quote
350Znismo Posted May 24, 2006 Author Posted May 24, 2006 Now you have the gsp aerial you can pick up software from ebay that runs on your pc, i got mine for £10 and it is better than tom tom. Quote
Stu350 Posted May 25, 2006 Posted May 25, 2006 Hi guys, So if you don't want to take out your Bose unit, you are a bit screwed for installing a Car PC (assuming you want MP3) cos there is nowhere to connect it to the audio system, right? Sorry for the newbie question, it's just that I'm a newbie -Stu Quote
350Znismo Posted May 26, 2006 Author Posted May 26, 2006 Hi guys, So if you don't want to take out your Bose unit, you are a bit screwed for installing a Car PC (assuming you want MP3) cos there is nowhere to connect it to the audio system, right? Sorry for the newbie question, it's just that I'm a newbie -Stu Not exactly, as the two can work side by side but if you are playing mp3's then why go back to cd's. Have a look at this http://www.phoenix-pcs.co.uk/acatalog/P ... ICX1R.html Fitted it a Zed http://www.350z-uk.com/gallery/displayi ... at=0&pos=4 The car is a UK car and they changed the head unit only, running through the Bose amps and speakers. This gives you sat nav, dvd, mp3, mp4, Ipod, all for £980. if i had my time again that is the way to go. Quote
Ash007 Posted June 5, 2006 Posted June 5, 2006 Hi,350znismo, Just a quick one, the RAM in the machine, can you use any ram or is that the special sized one. (was it called low riser??) Thanks Quote
Smoky Posted June 5, 2006 Posted June 5, 2006 Nice site on this here. http://www.swooby.com/z/navpc/ Quote
diether Posted January 19, 2007 Posted January 19, 2007 At last I've finally fitted the carpc in my roadster. Looks cool and works well. But I don't think it will ever be tinker free. Quote
live2themaxuk Posted January 20, 2007 Posted January 20, 2007 Ive been there and done that. with my last car. Its a bit of fun having a PC in your car, but id at no point do away with a standard PC headunit. The radios are just NOT up to it yet for computers. Only crappy FM USB tuners, and tv/fm pci cards. Also, its a PC, so despite how much time you spend perfecting it, it will crash from time to time and its mucho hasselo. I went for and all in car pc installation in my last car without a headunit and it soudned great and looked cool, but ended up pissing me off with its crashing, freezing and lack of decent radio. Remember, alot of the car pc software is based around the good old USA, so most of the decent GPS software isnt compatible with the front ends like Media engine, frodo etc amd we dont have satilette radio over here which would be great for an all in solution. Its cool, but only as an auxillary unit. . . . . . they just aint stable enough and 'solidstate' enough, like the built in navs which provide greater reliability and less issues. Its a labour of love. . . . . Quote
Stew Posted February 17, 2007 Posted February 17, 2007 Is that a laptop with a permanant power supply and an external monitor? Or am I blind! Quote
elrao Posted February 17, 2007 Posted February 17, 2007 Hi guys, So if you don't want to take out your Bose unit, you are a bit screwed for installing a Car PC (assuming you want MP3) cos there is nowhere to connect it to the audio system, right? Sorry for the newbie question, it's just that I'm a newbie -Stu Not exactly, as the two can work side by side but if you are playing mp3's then why go back to cd's. Have a look at this http://www.phoenix-pcs.co.uk/acatalog/P ... ICX1R.html Fitted it a Zed http://www.350z-uk.com/gallery/displayi ... at=0&pos=4 The car is a UK car and they changed the head unit only, running through the Bose amps and speakers. This gives you sat nav, dvd, mp3, mp4, Ipod, all for £980. if i had my time again that is the way to go. I can't see a PC in either of these links :confused: Quote
Removed Posted February 17, 2007 Posted February 17, 2007 must have been when we moved server, the links must have gone tits up... maybe look into 350ZNismo's gallery? Quote
diether Posted February 18, 2007 Posted February 18, 2007 Yeah I was going to build a carpc from scratch but then I had a spare laptop hanging around so used that instead, just soldered a couple of wires into the main switch so it switches on and off with the ignition. Quote
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