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Originally Posted by spadival  Not entirely true. I got a readymade carputer installed from Car PC based Vehicle Infotaiment Systems | iRide Technologies. Mumbai, India. I got mine installed at an ICE installer (FM Drive, Mumbai) with guidance from iride. If the installer knows his electricals -how to draw power to the CarPC directly from the battery, then its pretty straight forward from then on. Just need to drill a few holes to fasten the CarpC and the LCD touch screen. |
"One swallow does not make a summer"!
The comparison is with the standardization that is there in ICE. Considering that there are only a handful of companies worldwide (and only 1 company in India) that are into this, that also at DIY level, it is hardly standard yet for the normal "fit it and forget it" desire of customers.
How many of the current carputers mount / work straight out of the box like HU's do? Even you have said "
with guidance from iRide"! The WinXX / Linux based carputers follow the same paradigm as PCs - boxes that boot to an OS when powered up, but are hardly usable by common people till you go through a lengthy software installation process. Even though there are millions of PC users today, in 99.9% of the cases it has been setup for them for practical use by someone else AFTER purchasing it. Believe you me, even most software developers today cannot handle that - they need someone from the infra / PC support team!
Now think about a common person like @drchernish. Do you think he can afford to spend quality time in learning / figuring out the how's, why's, do's and don'ts just to get that box do anything practical?