Looking for HP Mini Accessories - Audio adapter?

[Jon1000]

I am looking for an audio adapter cable for my Mini 110 - a 4 pin (or more accurately 4 ring) 3.5mm plug to 2x 3.5mm stereo sockets - to take a standard headset with separate 3.5mm plugs for mic and headset.

I can find a 4 pin to single 3.5mm socket designed for some mobile phones - but not the Y type adapter needed for standard PC headsets

Thanks.  Its a pity HP didnt stick with the totally standard 2 x 3.5mm audio sockets on this product.

Jon

[The7]

For mini VGA cable, refer to

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/psg/board/message?board.id=Display&thread.id=38&view=by_date_ascending&page=18

It is available!

Message Edited by The7 on 09-12-2009 07:03 PM

[djmiller]

A perfect example of letting the market set the price. No government regulators made them charge $34 as opposed to $19. Supply side economics. Can't any logical person see that this works for the whole world? If you have it and somebody wants it, they'll pay whatever you ask for it. Hurrah for capitalism...and I'm serious.

[iv]

A perfect example of letting the market set the price. No government regulators made them charge $34 as opposed to $19. Supply side economics. Can't any logical person see that this works for the whole world? If you have it and somebody wants it, they'll pay whatever you ask for it. Hurrah for capitalism...and I'm serious.

I sincerely hope that you're not serious but that you were trying to be sarcastic or ironic or something, but didn't quite pull if off -- because otherwise you really need to go back to school!

Some Economics 101:

This has nothing whatsoever to do with 'Supply side economics' - that is a specific theory that says that low taxes and little regulation will make the market more flexable, encourage competition and thus result in a drop in prices. But here there is no competition: there is only one supplier. You probably have your terms confused and are thinking 'supply and demand'. 'Supply and demand' is the market mechanism that rules a perfectly competitive market. Those are markets with lots of suppliers, lots of buyers, perfect price transparency and minimal transaction cost. Typically, these are markets for bulk goods like wheat, sugar and steel.

What we've got here is 1 sole supplier of this particular product. (I think everyone here would be very interested if you know of large numbers of producers churning out generic copies of this cable!) This is what we economists call a monopoly. A monopolist sets its own prices- but of course it will sell different numbers of units at each price. Of course on a whole HP is not a monopolist - we could all have bought those nice sleek little Asus machines that are starting to look pretty good to me about now - but now that we got our HP Mini's, we're dependent on HP for the accessories.The economic term for this is 'vendor lock-in'. Suppliers exploit this: have you noticed how printer cartridges can cost as much (or more) as the printer?

What we see here is a pricing technique called 'price skimming' which is typically used for new technology products: you start at a rather high price, because there'll always be some people so eager to have the new product they'll pay that inflated price (like you said "If you have it and somebody wants it, they'll pay whatever you ask for it."). Once all those people have the product, you lower the price slightly to catch a second batch of consumers, who were intersted, but weren't willing to pay over the moon. And so you lower the price in steps, until the product phases out. Of course you need to have a product that is perceived to be unique to play this game.

If you take a minute to think about it you probably recognise this pattern from popular products like BluRay players and iPhones.

If you're interested in educating yourself a little more on basic economics, why not start at:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply-side_economics

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_skimming

And while I'm here - does anyone know if this imperfect market has already managed to produce a security cable for the HP Mini?

[djmiller]

Oh thank you so much for your briliant explanation. Gosh, someone has to correct every error in the world and do it so thoroughly.

I may have gotten my terms wrong, but being able to sell a product at any price you choose is the American way and it works.

[The7]

Ordered on Sept 10 and received it today.

Tested OK.

Do think there is any electronic elements inside the VGA cable.

[Bryan_N]

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Jon1000 wrote:

I am looking for an audio adapter cable for my Mini 110 - a 4 pin (or more accurately 4 ring) 3.5mm plug to 2x 3.5mm stereo sockets - to take a standard headset with separate 3.5mm plugs for mic and headset.

I can find a 4 pin to single 3.5mm socket designed for some mobile phones - but not the Y type adapter needed for standard PC headsets

Thanks.  Its a pity HP didnt stick with the totally standard 2 x 3.5mm audio sockets on this product.

Jon

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Jon, I use this one, it's only $15 and you can use any headphones. It's not just an adapter, and includes a microphone.

Not 100% what you're looking for but close.

Any Apple Iphone adapter would work also. This plug format is becoming a standard on some music enabled phones.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9120426&st=sonitalk&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=12180270...

[battery4laptop]

Hp mini accessories, My laptop is hp mini 9 laptop, I want a battery, but about the battery cell, I don't how to distinguish, anybody knows??

[jaceycarl]

Several items, including the spare 3 cell battery, power supply, and laptop sleeve are available today.

Message Edited by WendyM on 10-08-2009 07:02 AM

[cj045]

I purchased a HP Mini 311-1000NR from Fry’s and would like to purchase an “internal” broadband wireless card for it (prefer Verizon, but will take whatever is available).  Anyone know part #s and/or where to purchase?  I have spend much time on the HP and Verizon site, but all I can find is offers on Mini’s with the card already installed.  Just needing the internal card itself.

 

Thanks!