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Originally Posted by god_of_cpu
The a-open is definitly fast compared to anything by via once you get it up and running. The only major problem I've found with it as a carputer is its boot time. Its BIOS isn't very configuable and it forces you to wait through a network boot and a slow BIOS boot up, it also resumes from hibernate slowly. The sound card audio is also marginal. Other then that I think that its a very fast, well made, and compact machine.
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The boot times running through Windows XP are indeed very slow. To speed up the boot process you can disable networking related things, but this really is a bad idea if you plan on using wifi. I'm currently working with Linux and Windows CE/XPE engineers right now to try and develop an OS based on XP embedded that will run a front end similar to StreetDeck or CentraFuse. I also had an idea of using a quick boot system similar to the Linux's Instant-On feature on notebooks. Will update you guys when we finish with the project. Oh yeah, I'm also planning on using the Aopen Pandora on my next CarPC and mounting it in the upper glove box.