OK so I want a touch screen with sat nav mp3 and avi playback and usb but I want it to have an 80gig plus hard drive so I don't have to worry about disc's etc would i need to use a car computer got any you recommend? any help here would be great as I have no idea at all.

check out the forums at www.mp3car.com

they helped me no end when i had a carputa in my Magna

how much do u have to spend?

a carptuer isnt cheap

if u use a regular computer u still need a pure sine wave invertor plus cabling plus touch screen

if u use a proper carputer one u still need the cabling but u need a custom power supply...

For around $2500 give or take I can build and fabricate a double DIN carputer for you to bolt in a 2nd or 3rd gen that will have all of the above and ship it out to you.

If you want to do it yourself, mp3car is all the info you need. Add me to msn and I will give you free advice.

Jaycar have carputer power supplies now - $100.

I have a laptop with a busted screen, but otherwise in perfect working order. How hard is it going to be for me to hook this up to an indash screen?

I have a laptop with a busted screen, but otherwise in perfect working order. How hard is it going to be for me to hook this up to an indash screen?

Does the lappy have an output for a normal monitor? ud prolly need an rca to "whatever pc screen plug is" converter...??

Does the lappy have an output for a normal monitor? ud prolly need an rca to "whatever pc screen plug is" converter...??
Yeh it's got s-video and normal monitor out. Also has USB. It's an old asus pentium 3 800mhz, but with a cleaned up drive and only running apps i need to play movies/music i can't see there being a problem with it being slow.

Your output would be fine - most cheap screens have an svideo or composite input (and you can get adaptors that convert between the two)

Cheers
Heath Young

Just a cool product
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Just a cool product
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Mvix-Portable-Hard-Drive-Multimedia-Player-AVI-DivX-FM_W0QQitemZ290099356915QQcategoryZ130860QQrdZ1QQc mdZViewItem

hmmmm...need something like an IR blaster, so u could aim the remote at the dash... mount the unit somewhere out of the way, run cables to an indash screen...use remote to control it...all for $230 plus say $200 for a 500gb hdd...$430, add a screen, and ur done :D

For around $2500 give or take I can build and fabricate a double DIN carputer for you to bolt in a 2nd or 3rd gen that will have all of the above and ship it out to you.

If you want to do it yourself, mp3car is all the info you need. Add me to msn and I will give you free advice.

thanks for the offer i will add you and ask for help after I've converted the wife to the idea lol

That MviX unit looks pretty good. I would chop up the bezel completely, mount the unit behind dash, fabricate the lcd and buttons into the ash tray dash panel. I would pay up to $1000 for a unit like this with ethernet network support and digital outputs, for my home setup.