hmmm in car mac anyone?

I don't want to get into any Apple v PC arguments, each to their own, but as a VW & Mac owner, this link has a fantastic in car installation:

mac or PC that's one tidy install! i like :)

That is a very, very clean install. The mp3car.com forums has it's own incar mac board now.

Can't see it being long before people start writing front ends to=20 autorun when it starts, and porting Linux software (like the Linux QT=20 front end to Windows based Infomap Navigator) to get more out of the Mac=20 as a Car front end.

It's almost a dream come true, smaller, compact, approved and=20 standardised hardware that would be so much simpler to build an=20 application layer that would work with all mac minis.

It's the dream of all incarPC buffs.

--=20 Carl Robson "Sorry Sir the meatballs are orf" (The poster formerly known as Skodapilot)

It's almost a dream come true, smaller, compact, approved and standardised hardware that would be so much simpler to build an application layer that would work with all mac minis.

It's the dream of all incarPC buffs.

The last laptop I saw with a Detachable screen was the old Siemens Nixdorf stuff that had something like a P1 166. Not much good for realtime Sat Nav and MP3 at the same time, along with decent modern power management and an OS that knows how to use it.

Or, just plug a seperate screen into the laptop as well...

Yes, if it's not shagged :) Apple got a dodgy-batch of them, and a large number of MacMini bods couldn't get them to work. A quick call to Apple Support, yields the old "Ah yes Sir, that monitor is not compatible with the MacMini". A quick replacement of the DVI adaptor, miraculously compatibilises the monitor !

Oh dear.

I suggest you go get some experience of the modern PC world. I use/support both at work, and Macs come off second-best in every way. Their time as a viable PC alternative, has long since passed.

Reasonable ViewSonic 17" TFT : £150 Reasonable Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical White : £30

inc shipping = £185

No you couldn't. You could shave maybe £10 off that price, if you shopped around.

You can't sensibly have "lovely" and "CRT" in the same sentence :)

Huh ? Seeing as the Mac Mini is the most uncapable of all Macs, then your Shuttle must have some *seriously* old tech inside. And if you paid £400 for it with said old tech inside, then you were ripped :)

ROFL

Current Macs already run Linux - OS-X is Linux with a fancy GUI :)

Hmm, I am fairly sure that OS-X is actually Unix with a fancy GUI.

So much for your uber computer knowledge. Again. (c:

Douglas

You already know that, for all intents and purposes, Unix = Linux :)

!!£"$"

Lot of BSD ninjas would have fed to the daemon for saying such things...

Bollocks to the BSD ninjas - I can deal with their kind :)

A point so empty headed and stupid you had to make it twice?

It's user upgradeable, I mean it's not as if Dell and the likes charge a reasonable price for upgrading RAM is it?

Twice?

You mean there are two Dans sharing the same brain cell?

I'd be careful. You're getting the hatstand in the hall angry.

Fraser

I'll say, that hatstand runs OpenBSD.