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New custom car PC enclosure finished!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Rogers" data-source="post: 734455" data-attributes="member: 60724"><p>Kcmdata, I also assumed that Larry used a slim, 2.5" laptop HDD.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's what most carputers use.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again, take a look at www.mp3car.com. Though Larry may have gutted a mini-ATX desktop (not sure about that), there are carputer mobos and accessories that are made for this environment, taking into account all those things you mention, and run cooler than your average laptop. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>One thing to note is most of these carputers don't have that much horsepower (lower clock speeds, less memory, slower memory), because their tasks aren't that burdensome.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>P.S. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I've been working hands on with PC since 10MB was a large hard drive, and you had to run a special program in order to "park" the heads of the disk before you moved the PC...so I can appreciate where you are coming from, KC when discussing the differences between a regular PC and a laptop. But there are further differences between a true carputer and either of those, that's all I was saying.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>TJR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Rogers, post: 734455, member: 60724"] Kcmdata, I also assumed that Larry used a slim, 2.5" laptop HDD. That's what most carputers use. Again, take a look at www.mp3car.com. Though Larry may have gutted a mini-ATX desktop (not sure about that), there are carputer mobos and accessories that are made for this environment, taking into account all those things you mention, and run cooler than your average laptop. One thing to note is most of these carputers don't have that much horsepower (lower clock speeds, less memory, slower memory), because their tasks aren't that burdensome. P.S. I've been working hands on with PC since 10MB was a large hard drive, and you had to run a special program in order to "park" the heads of the disk before you moved the PC...so I can appreciate where you are coming from, KC when discussing the differences between a regular PC and a laptop. But there are further differences between a true carputer and either of those, that's all I was saying. TJR [/QUOTE]
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