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Post by Mill3niumThr33 »

I got the system in about 4 days ago and have been tinkering with it. Overclocking isnt the greatest but I didnt buy it for that. Im starting to learn linux but its a big change for me and im not very good with command line stuff. Next up is a touchscreen, power inverter, mini keyboard, wireless mouse, wireless card. Things im thinking of getting are a pci sound card, navi antenna, graphics card, and long range wireless antenna.
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Sounds sweet, one of my friends here has/had one in his civic, but some lady rear ended him and it damaged it.
I thought the screens were around $1k...
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Post by Mill3niumThr33 »

screens vary but the most common one on mp3car.com is a 7" touchscreen that goes for 250.
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That would be so cool, I'd like to do that. could I use the guts from one of my computers, I'd like to pics of the final project.
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Post by sneakyboy1 »

Whatever happened with this carputer build?
My Alpine indash touchscreen media player gets here friday and I am going to build a carputer for it. Just wondering how yours turned out? Love linux but going to roll with Media Center on this one so I can do all my music, movies etc. :)
Got any pix of your install? Where did you mount your mobo? Did you use an inverter for your power supply?
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