I'm thinking about adding a Mac mini and 7 inch vga display into my E500.

I can put a bracket in the center vents that makes the screen easy to detach.

The Mac Mini has a 80 gig hard drive and would be capable of handling email- I'd also be interested in the speech recognition for doing word processing- nothing complicated while driving- mostly just simple follow up letters, checking e-mail (The mac will read it to you) etc. Perhaps I can run a navigation program as
well. 1.4 mghtz for the $599 model , fire wwire 400, bluetooth for the Treo 650 phone. Hell, with wifi in it...I might just be able to surf while parked in my car in a few residential areas.

Optimally- Palm One makes a small folding keyboard for the Treo 650 and if they have a bluetooth one...perhaps it will do double duty.

Anyone else embarking on this??The Mac Mini starts at $499

With a PalmOne Treo 650, the mini Mac would be redundant. The 650 is all you need, with the addition of the folding keyboard, a 1GB SD memory card and a bluetooth printer. There are already GPS systems for the 650 with voice directions and maps.

I could probably do a google on the the Palm, but I'll ask here:
Can it play DVD's?

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1990 190e 2.6 - The only one I can really call "My Car".

1987 190e 2.3 - The donor car's up and running, only mods are Euros and a Sony headunit. My Dad's runabout now.

1990 300e 2.6 - The parents' ride.

Can't play DVDs, but it does have video built in, and can playback downloaded videos and audio files with a software player like Kinoma.

Not afraid that the hard-drive will skip when driving?

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).

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When I saw the ridiculous size of the mac mini power supply...I abandoned the project. The powerbrick is almost 2/3 the size of the mini.