Not everything HP does is crazy.

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:40 pm 0

1 cable plugs into your new HP laptop from which you get:

IR receiver for remote control
Component video
Composite video
S video
Audio line out
S/PDIF
USB 2.0
4-pin Firewire
AC power jack

It looks almost 'boss-proof'.

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press ... nment.html

randomdude · Post by **randomdude** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:01 pm 0

That does seem pretty cool.

venusian · Post by **venusian** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:04 pm 0

Hrm. Assuming you're only going to use a couple of connectors at a time that leaves alot of uneaten spagetti lying around. Looks a bit messy to me, and bulky.

radio · Post by **radio** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:46 pm 0

venusian wrote:Hrm. Assuming you're only going to use a couple of connectors at a time that leaves alot of uneaten spagetti lying around. Looks a bit messy to me, and bulky.

Agreed, 'specially if its a laptop cable. I dont like having my lappy attatched to anything if I can help it, although I usually can't

(speakers, mouse, net, power) that cable would have so many left overs.

Admittedly it does look kindof cool.

ps. anyone know if you can buy wireless speakers with a small transmitter? like iTrip size or smaller and that transmits to dedicated speakers instead of a radio?
Any ones I've seen all have big(relativey) transmitters and long wires to connect said transmitter to device. I think they're probably meant for home stereos, not portable things.

GodMedia · Post by **GodMedia** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:18 pm 0

venusian wrote:Hrm. Assuming you're only going to use a couple of connectors at a time that leaves alot of uneaten spagetti lying around. Looks a bit messy to me, and bulky.

Does look a bit overkill, dunnit?

Still, it is kind of an elegant solution in the way that you just have one accessory and you can connect to just about anything you'd want to connect to. The question really is, how easy is it to get the laptop software to interface with whatever it is you connect to one you connect to it? My ThinkPad has a whole nasty little setup menu thingy just to hook it up to a S-VHS and it doesn't look so great after you get it all up and running.

foxyloxy · Post by **foxyloxy** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:16 pm 0

Hp. Hp. HP!

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/msg ... ender.html

Probably entirely the wrong place to post, but what to think?

Hp.

It was the full page spread that broke my head.

Hp.

Hp.

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:30 pm 0

venusian · Post by **venusian** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:10 pm 0

skab · Post by **skab** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:58 pm 0

The new Apple Flower Power iCable?

randomdude · Post by **randomdude** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:59 pm 0

well I thought it was rey pretty

spinlizard · Post by **spinlizard** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 12:09 am 0

Very pretty, but will it stop my iPAQ from doing a hard-reset occasionally when I slot it into the docking station and dumping its entire memory?

ravuya · Post by **ravuya** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 2:06 am 0

That cable scares the hell out of me. Looks like some sort of alien tentacle beast. Imagine trying to pick up chicks with that Cthulhu clone hanging its maw out of the side of your sleek laptop.

If they actually did paint it all rainbow-like, I'd probably be less scared of it.

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 4:23 am 0

I hate to think of what happens when you've buried that deep in a drawer and then try and retrieve it in a hurry when you *really* need it.

Demonix · Post by **Demonix** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:04 am 0

You could use that at raves - swing it around you head to produce weird colour blurs and stuff... better than plugging it into a shite laptop.