IMO, it would be better just to buy a laptop. That way, you can take it in the car only when you want (no rip-offs), larger screen for watching DVD movies, you could upgrade it easy, and you can also use it in other places when not using it in the car.

 

I'll have to look into that.

I can understand what you are saying if the PC is mounted to the floor or even worse just left on the floor but what I was thinking was building a "box" for it lining the box with a layer of soft rubber so it's a very snug fit and mounting the box in place of the glovebox, that way when the car bounces the PC will move with the car at the same rate causing less jerk.

 

I've been considering doing this for a while. Now that i have my own server at home that doubles as my PC, my laptop is freed up to do whatever. So i'll be whiping the hard drive clean, and doing some sort of "under the dash" install, running only a few programs. Mine will be more for tuning and what not than music, but i'm sure it will end up serving that purpose as well.

Anyone have any experience with some good programs?

 

Two words for you guys talking about HDD's wearing out from the motion:

solid state

Yeah I know, solid state hard drives of any appreciable size are really expensive, but being a computer geek myself I just wanted to put it out there. I really wish USB ports and digital media card readers were standard equipment in car stereos (actually I think the 06 EX with Navi does have a card reader)

 

A card reader, ohh good call, didn't even think about that.

Thanks!!!

 

LOL...they don't live too long too. I just trashed two one gig flash drives...me being stupid, kept compiling my c++ apps while working on them...

 

I just spoke to a buddy of mine who has had a PC in his Integra for about 2 years now and has yet to experience a problem. Even so I've checked out the solid state and for the price of some of them I'd rather spend the money twice a year on reg hard drives. It'd still take about 15-20 years of buying 2 hdd's a year to equal the price of 1 2 gig solid state.

 

 

I know AEM has their own software, other than that only one I know about Uberdata.

 

Yeah but if all you do is load an OS on boot, then run everything from system memory, it should last quite a while. There are tons of Linux distros that would work for this, and I'm sure some enterprising people have found ways to do it with Windows (although none that I've heard of)