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The assembly for this computer is not for the novice. If you are familiar with computer components you will do fine. There is a lot of tight spacing, but the online documentation is very helpful. The adapter on our DVD drive provided the main challenge. We had to mod the fan by cutting off a corner and moving it slightly on the heat sync to get everything to play nicely together. The case was good to work with, providing a slide out tray for all the assembling needs. |
 
 
 
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Once you get the computer assembled, we recommend you install Windows Vista Premium. Vista is critical if you want to use One Voice for your voice commands. One voice happens to be incompatible with Windows Media Center(XP). Vista has some extra features with Media Center that can be nice to have. In addition, we installed Map Point and Microsoft Office.
You will want to pick up a USB blue tooth transmitter and headset for your voice commands. If you can find one that just acts as a microphone you can avoid any possible difficulties with the head set's audio taking over for the audio output. Once you get all that up and running you can spend some time talking to your new computer and setting up the voice commands you want to use. If you choose to set up a USB camera as a backup camera, or a usb remote control, setting it up now can be save you some potential aggravation.
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For the final assembly, we added a momentary switch to the case and hooked it up to a manual override plug on the power supply. This is nice because the power supply doesn't always shut down if there is an unsaved document open etc. Being able to manually shut down or power the computer up takes care of those rare occasions when those rare occasions when the power supply doesn't catch it. |
OneVoice:
One Voice is a pretty sweet program. It is recommended you use a headset microphone to get the best voice recognition performance out of it. It would also be a good idea to spend some time with another person driving while you go through the training scripts. That would let you train the system to ignore the background road and engine noise in the car. You will probably want to do most of the set up at the comfort of a desk, and just fine tune it once it is in the car.
It can be a great boost to your confidence to have your car greet you in a self-affirming way. With your new-found confidence, meeting girls online will be easy. Think how impressed she will be when you tell her that you are chatting with her while using her unsecured wireless network! If that doesn't win the girl over, her hearing your car's unctuous, slightly mechanical voice greet you by saying: "Hello Danny thank you for turning me on" will certainly do the trick. Then again with a sweet computer that can talk to you like that, who needs to go on dates right? |
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