Japanese Mini Dock - Put a Mac mini in Your Car
If I'm in interpreting the Engrish properly, this appears to be a pre-packaged Mac mini docking station for your car. Yes, for your car.You can buy the enclosure itself for $500 or the docking enclosure along with an LCD for $1050. Yes, it's expensive, but it's all pre-packaged to fit into most standard auto radio bays (but you should check with the company before buying; I'm just speculating based on their website info and pictures).
Your Mac mini could be an entertainment center, a GPS navigation system, or even use dictation software to record memos. Heh.
I'm not saying it hasn't been done before; it has been by a number of car modder enthusiasts. But this is the first I've seen of a company selling a ready-to-install kit. I want one, and I don't even have a car.
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buy-proxy said 11:00AM on 12-13-2005
Excellent, this will go a long way in imporving my Mac-Car plans.
However, even if you aren't interested in Mac'ing you ride, the Engrish on that site is simply fantastic.
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John Laur said 2:03PM on 12-13-2005
From the comments you make it sound like you can just plug in a mac and have a great GPS system, but keep in mind there is absolutely no good GPS software for the mac.
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Gee-Zee said 12:13PM on 12-13-2005
There are some pictures of the back of the dock on 123Macmini.
http://www.123macmini.com/news/story/406.html
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matt said 12:42PM on 12-13-2005
use a microphone, and you can order in Mac like a night rider
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shaun said 8:12PM on 12-13-2005
mmmmm, thats a saab.
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Xavier said 9:26PM on 12-13-2005
that's prohibitively expensive for me~
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