Thanks for that info about car kits, I had been looking at them. I presume I should be looking at the 9" CRT commercial equipment replacement panels, which run in the $400 range. The good news is they also take TTL, CGA & EGA inputs. ;-)

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Aw hell no. $400? Madness.

To be clear, what I meant was the typical widescreen DVD-only monitors that go in car AV systems, and have the bare minimum vertical pixel count for NTSC, and AV inputs only - those should be avoided.

There are decent 8"-10" 4:3 aspect LCDs available, with VGA in, and at least 640x480 pixels, around the $200+/-$50 mark.

But I still say the most cost effective will be a MiniITX with LVDS and a bare panel.

/edit/ The Intel Jetway J9F2 Extreme - socketed CPUs, takes Core2Duos, has LVDS video. Admittedly not as cheap as the Atom boards, but holy spaghetti monster, that's a lot of expandability in a small board.