Carputer

vsquest · #1 31-08-2008, 05:22 PM

anyone have one? whats the pros and cons?

hakhawk · #2 31-08-2008, 05:54 PM

yep got one, had it running for a few years now.

pros
-rocks!!, gps, music, movies, the lot in one, fully customisable

cons

-slow boot times unless you mess with it and get it booting quick(can be done)
-no radio for me at the moment, but there are (expensive) modules available
-not for the average person, you've gotta want to have the carpc, theres plenty of easier multimedia headunits these days that do very much the same thing without the headaches.

in saying that, im still in the process of building a newer smaller carpc for my vp.

link to pics of my current pc

Index of /pictures/carpc

and of my in progress pc

Index of /pictures/vp/carpc

vsquest · #3 31-08-2008, 06:12 PM

looks neat. BTW what software are you running

MagiTEK · #4 31-08-2008, 06:13 PM

HakHawk,

What frontend software do you use? Do you like it?

hakhawk · #5 31-08-2008, 06:39 PM

using roadrunner front end, love it, tried a few others, keep going back to it.

also use xp as base, map monkey with destinator maps(these are horribly outdated now though, need something that will use tomtom or navman maps), and a bunch of other random apps.

Sheany · #6 31-08-2008, 08:12 PM

I have a CarPC in my VX.
As Hakhawk says, it's not always as user friendly as u'd like. Mine has issues every now n then of just crashing for no apparent reason n all sorts at the moment :S

I'm running XP, with Roadrunner and using Google Earth for gps.