Anyone here ever heard of TRC12VOLT.COM
they have computers for cars and it seems cool. Im computer savvy and looks like itll play dvds, games, cds, mp3s, all witha touchscreen monitor. called a local dealer in ca and says can get the monitor, comp, and navigation for 2300.
anyone know how the sound quality would be coming from these things?

cost about the same as a dvd player and nav but can use it to do anything a computer can.

 

2300 is way over price. Beside the price, look like you have to turn on/off manually (unless i missed some info on the website. Do it yourself cost about 800-900 depend on options that you want and the system boot up and shutdown automatically. No need to wait. Both of my cars have a complete carputer system and cost me less than $1200 for both systems.

About sound, My celica's carputer feeds sound from soundcard to my Alpine headunit, so sound is perfect. On my Lex, sound feed through the FM Mod, so sound is not great but acceptable (I love the lex sound quality and OEM look so I didn't want to change the HU and there is no aux adapter made for it )

 

where do you get the supplies? I've only seen those mini shuttle comps but nothing as small as the ones at trc12volt. id liek to build my own with navigation if it saves money and lets me custom the comp

 

Depend on your accessories (# hard drive, dvd rom, # of usb accessories, etc) there are power supply that range from 55W to 150W DC regulated voltage. You can check them out at
http://www.mini-box.com/pw-70a.htm

or a more expensive PSU at: http://www.opussolutions.com/150watt.html


For mini-itx motherboard (dimension is 17cm x17cm), Check out via website at

http://www.viaembedded.com/product/e...therboardId=81

I can fit everything in my tiny glove compartment (way smaller than the TL)

 

I'm thinking about this

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...6&sku=N52-1043

as you can see it is really small and everything is already in there. Looks good for carputer setup

 

Yea I know a few people used that. It's a decent system. There is even smaller one call Espresso. Check here http://www.saintsong.com.tw/english/...pc/r-epc01.htm

 

check out mp3car.com. there is an 04 tsx there with a carputer using navi screen + avelectronics module +computer.

 

Yeap I saw that + hundreds other cars on that website.
It is nice and clean OEM looking, but display composite video signal, small text is unreadable (Unless they did something different on that TSX) and no touchscreen using the OEM screen for the computer. VGA screen only cost about 300 bucks

 

nice.... there are some pics of a hardwire system I setup in my rear glove box a while back. been working for a while now. Using roadrunner as the front end and using a skin called digital FX which make it about 1000 times easier to use.

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...=488879&page=3

 

holy old thread

 

wow sorry about that, I dont know how in the world this post ended up in this thread. I was posting this in the car computer thread in the 2nd gen forum.... Who knows.

 

I would love that in my car..