Sean Waugh
EF0
The carputer's are comparable to a laptop, and the idea of just using a laptop stowed away somewhere is a viable option, I just tend to prefer the carputer as you can it get to do more than a laptop for the same price (that and my personal laptop is a POS). Whether you use a laptop or a carputer, the main idea here is to get away from mounting a laptop or screen even remotely near an airbag deployment zone as whatever is there becomes a projectile traveling at over 100 mph. As Skip proposed, if you built or had built the right computer, you could get a pretty powerful unit inside your car that would ultimately cost you less than a laptop. With the right setup, you could easily do video/image editing driving down the road, or anything else you wanted to do. You could conceivably mount your own desktop in the car using your own home-made shock absorbers, but your taking a risk on how well it might work. It might be fine, it might not. Only time will tell on that one, just make sure that you back up all your data/software/etc. on a regular basis just in case it decides to fail on the next chase. There are always a variety of options available, hat's off to David btw for the clean setup in his older car.