What kind of PC works best for the car?

I don't know much about laptops or notebooks, never had one or used one
before.

But I need something for the car, for routing my Streets & Trips.
Something I can bring in the house to avoid it being stolen from the car,
enter all my addresses in a Open Office spreadsheet, import them into
Streets & Trips with a GPS, and then put it in the car and run my route.

What kind would be best for that, and cost the least?

Can it be put on some kind of car mount where I wouldn't have to be
plugging stuff in and out all the time, like power adapter and GPS
antenna? Something that it would just sit securely on and make those
connections for me? To they have like a locking mount for that? ( by
locking, I mean like with a spring loaded mechanism that would lock it
down in place securely, not a key lock or anything. )

 

There are GPS receivers that can be given a route or routes to follow;
they are much easier to fit into a car - many have purpose-made clip-in
brackets which can be screwed to the dash-board or suckered to the
windscreen. I'm sure you could find one that can be 'programmed' from
your computer for a particular trip or a day's deliveries or whatever it
is you are trying to do.

Some PDAs or 'pocket computers' can have a GPS receiver 'card' fited to
them, and there may be suitable brackets or clamps for attaching them to
the inside of a car.

Why do you want to use a laptop in the car?

 

dell axim x51v
is a great choice.

 

I think we've been over this before. None of them yet can import large
address lists from spreadsheets.

Because the GPS units can't yet import.

 

Buy a TomTom GPS. You can program routes via your desktop PC.
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What? yes they can, they take SD cards now. Your spreadsheet surely is not
that big. I have the whole USA programmed in mine with a 500meg SD card.

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I doubt if any GPS receiver will ever be able to import spreadsheets as
such; but you can use mapping software on your computer to set up 'way
points' and 'routes' which can then be loaded into a GPS receiver. Or you
can 'import' a set of locations (way points, addresses, whatever your
system calls them) or enter them directly, and let the GPS receiver
calculate a route for you.

In practice, a good paper streetmap often works at least as well; and they
don't get confused when you get too close to trees or large buildings.

 

The best kind of PC for the car is one that's left home.

 

If you get a small very small laptop then there are some pacakages
you
can buy to add GPS capacity to the laptop. With wireless through a
wrireless card from sprint or cinguler then you can download
spreadsheets when ever you want. A little on the expensive side.
There are also some pda cellphones that can do the same that might be
more practical. Does it have to have spreadsheets? Lot's of
standalone
GPS devices if not.