ultimateendz

Callaway

how are you going to control the carputer? it will be interesting to see how the installer would integrate the stock touchscreen capability with a aftermarket unit.

ultimateendz

yea that was my very first reservation about this idea

ultimateendz

im undecided on whether i should build one myself and install the windows tablet pc OS or just buy one and tweak it for my own use...

ultimateendz

the only thing is the carputer hardware is designed for car temperatures with pretty good heat sinks and cooling capabilities...id have to run some serious diagnostics to make sure my carpc runs cool since im going to overclock the bejesus out of that thing.

DiamondGCoupe

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I bought that stuff for my G35, the Digital Wheelz assembly. It worked well but I don't see how our stock screens could be integrated to work with any external peripheral unless someone figured out a way to be able to switch sources ie. Nav, A/V

romor

I been running a via based itx carputer in my FX for 3 years (no need to overclock) with a seperate screen since I didnt have a navy screen. Now I just got a g37S without nav. I want to overlay a touchscreen over existing screen, somehow figure out the pin outs on the i-pod jack for higher quality video input and connect my carputer to it. I got about 80% figured out, but it involves some extra time figuring out the IPOD bs. Anyone had luck connecting something other than i-pod to the provided connector?

fuzemagazine

What was the outcome? I'm in the same situation.

hispeed-lowdrag

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a guy installed a iPad into the head unit...but IMO this is stupid because there is a perfectly good head unit already in the car

fuzemagazine

I saw something like that but yeah, it's too big. And for those of us w/o Navigation & bluetooh, we're more than likely not wanting to have to window mount a unit.

1cleanG

iTrader: (53)

LoL!!!!!!!!!

terrycs

iTrader: (37)

IMO, head unit = old school
carPC with touch screen interface on the stock LCD is the way to go. Use a VGA to RGB converter and you are all set.

InfiniDrew

iTrader: (1)

I agree that a carPC is the way to go except the stock screen has a very low resolution that makes reading text very hard (on 08 and 09 cars at least...haven't seen the new screens)).

Instead, get a new 7 touchscreen to go in the stock location. You can probably use the RGB signal going to the stock screen and convert it to something that can be viewed on one of the secondary inputs of the new screen.