So, i have an idea

[Gazza_DJ]

This (http://www.mini-itx.com/reviews/pico-itx/default.asp?page=1) in the glovebox, + a 6.5 / 7 inch LCD touchscreen (maybe one of martins sexeh jobbies)? it seem's to be efficient enough to not overheat in such a confined space, the only limiting thing i can really see is the onboard sound. perhaps a nice external soundcard or something? potential project i think. what do you reckon?

[matt_hilluk]

u still need to hook up hard drives and cd drives to it which will take space.

[Gazza_DJ]

yes, but that board is less than 10cm square, i could use a 2.5inch laptop drive, and im sure they do slimline CD drives. if not, then i could possibly go without one, just put all my media on the HDD.

[Richard_H]

To save on space in the glovebox you could use a 2.5" HDD and if you have room under the screen you could try using a slot loading laptop cd/dvd drive

[irfi]

http://www.esaw.co.uk/catalog/mini-computers

check it out for ya self
The barebones units come with motherboard case power cables and drivers all you need to buy is CPU, RAM Hard drive and CD Rom hope this helps

[Gazza_DJ]

mmm, it appears you have to be a company to register on that site :\

[irfi]

if you just email them the ywill send you prices etc etc i was so close 2 buying one n then i backed out cus i had some other problems with my car

[Gazza_DJ]

ahh, cool cool. later on im going to measure up the glovebox, and see what size it is. im still leaning towards the Pico-ITX board, just because of it's miniscule size. i'll either run WinXP MCE or some flavour of linux - im in favour of a light distro of linux at the moment, and have Amarok for music and i believe its MPlayer for video's on Linux. i'll probably try XP first though, and install linux if i find XP to be too laggy :)

[Navajo]

use a Linux distribution mate. Purely for the on screen widgets. You can get awesome ones for playing music and stuff. Especially with a touch screen.

[spid3r1987]

http://www.carcomputer.co.uk/index.php?%20option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=2&Itemid=26

full system set up there

[Gazza_DJ]

full setups are ok, but i would rather do it myself - and those are a hell of a lot bigger than the Pico-ITX form factor!

[aztec daz]

in the process of doing this myself. should hopefully have it finished for trax. as for the running of it, i would reccommend something like centrafuse or the likes.