Shuttle: computer into the car!

Shuttle unveiled its car-mounted personal computer, the CarPC, at CeBIT.

With a size of 28 × 23 × 7 cm, the CarPC is designed by Shuttle to withstand all external influences - temperature, vibration - that can occur in a car while traveling: accordingly, it is stable at temperatures of up to 35 degrees Celsius, and thanks to its special design, the hard drive can withstand 2 Gs acceleration.

The special power supply is extremely resistant to voltage fluctuations - 10,6-16 V -, which is also required to withstand the loads that occur when starting the car, and is set so that the CarPC also switches off automatically when the engine is stopped.

Shuttle’s product features an Intel Core Duo T2400 processor and an Intel 945GM integrated graphics processor, but much to the surprise, the optical drive, wireless Internet connection, and GPS were left out of the device’s equipment.