I had a nice little idea yesterday and if you guys could give me some feedback that would be great.

I figure you could easly put a laptop under your car seat and then run wires going to like a in-dash VGA monitor. From another post I understand that running a laptop takes less power then a normal PC. Hell I can even power it up at home then take it out. I would plan on using the laptop for (DVDs, GPS System, Music). I figure it would be pretty easy to wire the VGA monitor to come to the laptop (under the drivers seat, if possible). But one thing I am not sure about is how the laptop would hook into my deck. I am not sure of the quality difference but I might just use my Laptop for all my music. Instead of it going to a CD player / deck. I plan on having subs in there as well. Any ideas on how to do this?

easy... the vga screen i use has a vga cable and a usb cable (for the touch screen). Get a vga extension cable to run to the laptop, and use a usb hub for the touch screen (or just an extension). I'd recommend an external usb soundcard (like the audigy nx, or they have a pcmcia version now also). You run a stereo to rca y-adaptor (one end is like a headphone's jack, the other is 2 rca's). you use that from the soundcard (or you can try the laptop's on board sound first to try to save $$) to the rca inputs on the back of your deck (if it has it which it hopefully does, if not most decks you can get an adaptor to use the cd changer input for an aux input). When you wanna listen to music from the comp, just switch your deck to use the aux input. If you use a good soundcard like the audigy, the sound will be as good if not better then a cd.

with that the display will be on your in dash screen, you use the touch screen to control the laptop and you hear the music/videos/whatever on the car's stereo system.

All I hear is "BLAH BLAH BLAH". Where's the pics!

:gotpics:

Wow thanks for the indept response. I now know exactly what I have to do :) . Ya I have some Soundblaster cards laying around but for a desktop, I will definatly get a laptop with an audigy and a USB connection on it. In my current System my Desktop I have like on-board audio. Its gotta be the best sound I have ever heard from on-board.... its on a AMD Gigabyte board and it has like 7.1 Audio capablity. Also I think it has 2 RCA connectors on it to go to a decoder or something.

Ya I will definatly do that, I bet this will save me alot of $$$. I can usually get good deals on laptops and computer stuff, workin in a PC repair shop has its advantages :tup


Can you wait on the Pictures? like maby 8 months? :LOL: I still need the car first

For my system im running 2 12'' phoenix gold xs series subs, a alpine 700 watt amp, phoenix gold capacitor, and a kenwood deck. I'm Gonna be rewiring my system to a 0 gauge power wire instead of 4 gauge and hopefully i can get a in dash deck. but these plans might not go through cuz im looking to get rid of the old v6 to get a gt convertible.