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[PICTURE] Mac Mini w/Front Row installed in the dash of a Pruis

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  • suman78, on 10/12/2007, -8/+26and operating that with wiiremote would be cool....
    • cadillaccactus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15i wonder if the touch-screen display is functional...
    • biznazz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4agreed, being able to control this from the backseat would be awesome for kids. and hell, if you can hook a mac up to this, why not the wii itself?
    • czer323, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15http://www.kusnetz.net/prius/ states that the touchscreen IS functional!

      Kinda anyway, he setup the touchscreen in a 3x3 grid and then remapped the quadrants to certain keys you'd use in Frontrow.
    • slasherx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@cadillaccactus

      Yup. I've done this before, but with windows xp and an 8" touchscreen for my car pc. There are special apps that are made specifically for media use. That is a nice setup, looks very stock looking. There are a lot more installs at the http://mp3car.com forums. That's where I first learned of this and this has been going on for a while. It's a great site for learning how to build your own, and with tips on what you need.
    • slasherx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=25

      Some are great installs, some are kind of cheesy, but will give you a lot of examples.
    • jeriqo, on 10/12/2007, -9/+10Why the ***** would you need a wiimote?
      You know Apple has its own remote, specially designed for front row, right?
    • ReXorcist, on 10/12/2007, -6/+43I have a question: If the Mac mini is running XP while you're driving, will the car crash?

      yeah, yeah, digg me down, I just had to.
    • jasz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7I've been wanting to do this for the longest time... this looks great!

      Too bad the Prius is such an ugly car...
    • Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Ah, nothing like a dashboard computer to distract the driver. Cell phones are bad enough.
    • ScornForSega, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24A mac inside of a Prius?

      I can smell the smug from here.
    • Chewie67, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Go away, Wii-faboi. Not every post needs to be about the Wii.
    • craz3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@scorn, I was thinking the same thing before I read your comment. The only thing he needs now is a special cup holder for his double mocha soy latte espressofrapocinni
  • StephenBrown, on 10/12/2007, -8/+25Oh no! You misspelled Prius! (Sorry, Toyota fanboy speaking ;-)
    But I do have to say it's pretty neat! Adding the Wiimote would make this even more killer!

    Here's the guy's website for all the juicy details. (more pics and vids too!)
    http://www.kusnetz.net/prius/
    • netburnr, on 10/12/2007, -63/+3Dugg down only for admitting to being a Prius fanboi.

      (FF2 spellcheck doesn't recognize "Prius", I find that kind of funny)
    • tomvendetta, on 10/12/2007, -7/+48Dugg down only for spelling fanboy like a 12 year old girl on aim.
    • netburnr, on 10/12/2007, -21/+6Actually I spelled it like Avril...and the only reason I even posted it in the first place is too see if I can get more negative diggs than my previous Anti-*****-Prius comment from a previous story.

      So get to work Prius lovers, digg me down. Hell, even if you hate the Prius like me, still digg me down ;-)
    • samste, on 10/12/2007, -15/+1netburnr, you ***** geek. I WNAT DIGG DWN RECORD LAWL!!!11
  • morphie, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Nice mod, nothing more. It's not as if the guy invented a new intergalactic space-station... ;-)
    • OnlyShawn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1yes, but he could listen to "Intergalactic" on it....
  • abc1388, on 10/12/2007, -16/+4wow?
  • PsychoDeli, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://www.kusnetz.net/prius/

    Article about the installation and use.
    • jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It would have been nice if the article had linked to this instead of just a picture... but nice to find it in the comments at least.
  • sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nice easy setup cuz it already has a nice interface and it fits in his dash w/o mod? Would also be cool if he made a front panel to replace the existing one.
  • gh0st121der, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4This is old.
  • tvhack, on 10/12/2007, -15/+0its amazing what you can do in photoshop what a fake
    • ramsinks.com, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ya, how insane!!
      Cannot be real.
  • P5ycHo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Too bad the greyscale background looks horrible on that display.
  • Tourney3p0, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0I'll admit I don't know exactly how the electrical charging on hybrids work, but wouldn't this be a huge drain on the electrical system? And if it has a greatly depleted electrical reserve, wouldn't it basically lose most of the benefit of being a hybrid? Their gas mileage running on pure gas isn't terrible, but it's not exactly stellar either.

    I can see it now. "Honey, stop looking at last year's vacation pictures so I can make it up this hill."

    Or it could be that it has no bearing on gas mileage/power at all. Either way.
  • blunto, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0@tvhack
    geez, stop supposing that everything cool you see in the world is photo-shopped. or someday we wont believe in anything we see in pictures because we just knows that they are all photo shopped

    I don't know how it works in the matter of energy consumption in the car battery, but its really great looking and really useful as a media center and even as a internet kiosk, with an airport and near hotspots.
  • bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Is the Mini (or any other PC) really suited to take the kind of high and low temperature spikes encountered inside a car?
    • slasherx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1With proper ventilation it should be no problem. If you consider that most of these computers are stuck inside the dash it should be no problem. They're usually right next to the air ducts and in certain cases the air ducts need to be removed to a certain extent.
    • netburnr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3# Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)
      # Storage temperature: -40° to 116° F (-40° to 47° C)
      # Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing

      So unless your going to be driving with your A/C off in the desert, or parking your car in the Artics, I think you'll be fine.

      Hmm, I wonder what the operating and storage temps for the Prius are....
    • lonnieh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"# Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)"

      I'm sure they were playing it safe with those numbers. I haven't used my car PC in the summer, but I have started it up in freezing temperature, no probs.
    • TheGilmanator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My laptop gets turned on while frozen all the time. Not the brightest idea but, hey, it works.
    • ElectricKetchup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@netburnr
      # Storage temperature: -40° to 116° F (-40° to 47° C)

      I don't know about where you live, but here in Texas, the dash can easily go over 120F in the summer. If the dash was a darker color, that would make it even hotter. Cracking your windows when you park and using a windshield reflector would probably help, but even then it might go over 120F. I wouldn't roll my windows all the way down if I had a nice setup like that.
  • madchemst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is all fine and good but what about his standard prius interface? How does he know his gas mileage and all other data that's usually there?
    • ebs16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I thought the same... doesn't he need that screen to get vital stats and to control some other components the car?
  • ithildin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2This is a pretty old story...

    http://www.digg.com/search?s=mac+mini+prius&submit=Search§ion=news&type=both&area=all&age=all&sort=new
    • netburnr, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1It doesn't matter that its old, or a Dup, its about a Prius, and therefor automatic Digg front page....
  • terrible0ne, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1hahahahahahahahahahahahaha love that cassette player sucker!
  • Kratos76, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm gonna have to get me one of these PRUISes! LOL
  • aychamo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a link to the mp3car.com forum for a software called AMP, which is a free front-end for in-car Macs. It really is better than FrontRow.

    http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=140
    • Jagwire2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This guy knows what he's talking about. I use AMP. Now, AMP 2?!?
  • scolainsola, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Nice install, too bad the Prius is butt ugly.
  • micklerlop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2isn't this so 2005?
  • Mylonite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Most of the 2006 Prius have an upgraded display unit - I've been thinking about doing something similar since I got it.

    FTR, since the car is designed to actually *drive* when the motor is off, the electrical system is far more capable than the one in JoeBob's old truck. People have been known to use their Prius as a backup generator - just less than 2kw, iirc. I think the car can probably handle the 40 watts the Mini pulls.
  • diecastbeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ah this is pretty cool. i remember seeing this some time back. nice how the prius comes with a touch screen like that.
  • stuartjmoore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1shame the aspect ratio is off...


    I think.
  • lukeamotion, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I'd prefer to see video. This is an easy photoshop edit.
  • joepaterno, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This is great. Now just pop in your Al Gore video and head on over to the gay pride parade.
  • tarrmachine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2the wayback machine wants this story back
  • scilec, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This thread needs some ritalin.
  • ODSTKuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hmmm this picture seems to have been taken at 5:15.


    Captain Obvious Awaaaayy!!!
  • Halsu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hmm, you can see from the visitor links that this site has made it to digg frontpage 4 times.
    Not saying its a dupe...
  • bks1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0amazing. Just think, bluetooth phone to the MAC, video camera in the car, and you could teleconference from the car and make this 60 minute commute every day worthwhile.

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