you'd think with the high resolution that some of those TFT monitors have, they'd have an S-Video input... but I dont think I've ever seen one that does... except the $2000 plus screens for home.

I dont think the power inverter would need to be all that big... laptops use almost no power as compared to a PC. But there must be some sort of car power cable for laptops... instead of the 12 volts going into the inverter, getting stepped up to 120 volts, then into the laptop power supply and getting dropped back down again.

You're right, laptops are expensive... they gotta charge you to make everything small.

There is this one guy I know on the A-CL.com board, his name is MontrealCL, he built a computer for the purpose of playing MP3's and put it in his car... then he has a dot-matrix screen mounted below his head unit to display song and artist name and all that good stuff. I havent heard from him in a while, but last I knew he was hung up on the power supply... finding one or building one that took a 12 volt input and gave the nessecary 5 and 12 volt outputs. Im not sure how he controls all of it... but he seems to know a lot about computers.

I, too, was thinking about a "car-puter", but deemed it too expensive for now... besides, I only have a 56k connection to the net, so downloading songs in kinda inpractical for me. XM radio is in my near future too, so that should give me enough to listen to.

Edit: I just read what the origional topic of this thread was... oops... got a little off topic... sorry...