(Click here for larger image of car PC screen)Corsair's car PC is based on a Via Epia SP8000 mini-ITX motherboard with an 800 MHz C3 processor and 1 GB of RAM. A 7-inch-wide touchscreen LCD provides input and output. The system also includes a 100 GB hard drive, a DVD-RW drive, and a GPS receiver. All the components are standard-off-the-shelf parts.
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Car PC in the lab
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The car PC runs Windows XP, but with some additional effort could probably be configured to run Windows XP Embedded from a CompactFlash card. The touchscreen display is managed by an application called Centrafuse, from
Fluxmedia. Centrafuse handles all audio and video functions, as well as the GPS.
Read the full "CarPC Build Log"
here.
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