| I think you're baiting me for entertainment, but I'll bite anyways. Go with a low-power consumption processor that doesn't emit a ton of heat - the duocore is a good option and there are some decent AMD options that are deeply discounted thanks to their current position in the processor race. Go with a solid state or ruggedized hard-drive. Anything that spins @ 7200 rpms with 1 micron of clearance between the disk and drive-head should not be moved during operation, unless it has been engineered with some additional fault tolerance. Anything you put in there needs to have an operational temperature range that's compatible with the maximum temperature in your vehicle on a burning ass summer day. With the windows up. Otherwise you're going to lose your data. Verify that your Carputer chassis has a proper "suspension" to avoid destroying components in high-G events (bumps, bounces, going off-track, etc). I saw a Vista recommendation above, don't use Vista. You want something proven, solid and reliable. Vista is not proven. XP is as close as you're going to get in a Windows environment, so you were right about that. Vista is also incompatible with 99% of the software you'd probably like to put on there. Either way, it's retarded. Dogpile was dead-on about this being completely superfluous. Good luck!
Recursively Yours,
Kenny...
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