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News of another Mac’d ride from Classic Restorations – this time it’s a 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee. This Mac mini install will be sporting a touchscreen monitor flushed into the stock dash, a USB control knob (probably a Griffin PowerMate), a USB hub and an iSight camera.

Not much new in this install from the previous MacNova setup. I am curious what the iSight will be used for.…

The first of Classic Restorations Mac mini installs has begun. The first car to get “Mac’d out” is a 1969 MacNova SS. The CPU has been installed in the cars glove box area and is controlled via a 7″ touch screen and Griffin PowerMate controller. Four additional USB ports have been installed in the cars ash tray area for easy connection of USB devices. There is a short video of the system running off of the cars battery – …

Let the integration begin… Classic Restorations of Sloatsburg, NY has already begun development of a Mac mini car solution and is taking reservations for installations starting on Jan. 22. They had previously been working on integrating modified iBook and PowerBook car installs when they got wind of the rumored Mac mini.

Their system setup consists of the Mac mini, which can be installed in a standard DIN slot or glove box and a touch screen LCD to interface with the …

On Tuesday, Apple introduced the Mac mini, a diminutively sized and fully capable desktop computer that starts at only $499. The Mac mini is available with either a 1.25 GHz or 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4 processor and comes with 256MB of DDR SDRAM (upgradeable to 1GB), a 40GB or 80GB Ultra ATA hard drive and an ATI Radeon 9200 processor with 32MB of dedicated DDR video memory. Both configurations also include a slot-load Combo drive, One FireWire 400 port, …