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October 30, 2007

New Lilliput Car PC

By Sean

Editor

I stopped by the Lilliput booth today and got the low-down from Lilliput’s VP, John Xu, about their new DIN-sized carputer, the TC2000 (left). This bad boy can mount in a DIN opening and sports a C-M1.73GhHz processor, 512MB DDR2 memory and a 60 GB harddrive, and a CD-RW/DVD drive. The system is also upgradeable to a 2GHz processor, up to 1GB memory, and up to 120GB for the hard drive. The built-in Bluetooth allows audio streaming via A2DP from any capable media player (including your cell phone!),  four USB ports (2 front, two rear), and a front SD/CF card reader adds even more convenience and expandability to this multimedia powerhouse. If you have a double-DIN opening in your dash, combine this with Lilliput’s GL701 wide/touchscreen (right) for a complete car computer multimedia system. The GL701 is the perfect partner, giving touchscreen control of your PC, a TV tuner, reverse camera input, remote control, AM/FM tuner, two video inputs (one VGA, one RCA) and one video output.

Lilliput CarPuter

Comments

Anthony Hildoer
Nov 18, 2007 at 1:51 pm

Where can I buy one of these? And what is the price point on it? -Thanks.

Ted
Oct 31, 2007 at 4:31 pm

The problem is ergonomics. A car’s cabin is not a user-friendly environment for comfortable computing. If the think has a pop-out screen, viewing comfortably can be a pain in the butt.
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Oh and I hope it has the obligatory shut-off for when the car is being driven, cause nobody on Earth is capable of having a computer functioning in the dashboard without being distracted at the wheel – even if it’s not driver doing the computing.

kap0w
Oct 31, 2007 at 3:10 pm

Not a bad little setup for a turn-key Carputer – it always seemed to me like the people building these things were looking to be a little more hands-on. If they were going to spend what this must cost, would they rather just have an AVIC or something? Hrm…

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