[Jason Dunn]

Digital Home Thoughts reader Sven watched my unboxing and first impressions video of the HP Mini 1000, and took note of my complaint about the total size of the power brick and cable. He contacted me with some really cool power accessories that look perfect for lightening my travel load. Both are from Cyberguys, a company I've ordered some equally useful power cables from in the past. On the left, we have the 1ft. Notebook / Laptop Power Cable C5 Cloverleaf Plug, which would allow me to cut a significant amount of bulk out of the HP Mini 1000 power adaptor. The cable on the right is the Ziotek 1ft. Notebook / Laptop Power Cable C7 Figure-Eight Plug, and would do the trick for other laptops or netbooks that use that type of power connector. I'd love to see HP include something like this in the box - it would be really useful to anyone who travels and wants to pack light.

Another cool thing that Sven pointed out to me was how Sony handles this problem: by designing power supplies that are more compact and easier to pack. HP? Dell? Are you guys paying attention?

[Jason Dunn]

Digital Home Thoughts reader Sven watched my unboxing and first impressions video of the HP Mini 1000, and took note of my complaint about the total size of the power brick and cable. He contacted me with some really cool power accessories that look perfect for lightening my travel load. Both are from Cyberguys, a company I've ordered some equally useful power cables from in the past. On the left, we have the 1ft. Notebook / Laptop Power Cable C5 Cloverleaf Plug, which would allow me to cut a significant amount of bulk out of the HP Mini 1000 power adaptor. The cable on the right is the Ziotek 1ft. Notebook / Laptop Power Cable C7 Figure-Eight Plug, and would do the trick for other laptops or netbooks that use that type of power connector. I'd love to see HP include something like this in the box - it would be really useful to anyone who travels and wants to pack light.

Another cool thing that Sven pointed out to me was how Sony handles this problem: by designing power supplies that are more compact and easier to pack. HP? Dell? Are you guys paying attention?

[Chris Gohlke]

Sweet, I was just wondering if anyone made these the other day. I just checked monoprice and surprisingly they don't have them.

[Sven Johannsen]

Cyberguys has a lot of other neat items. One that I have bought a few of is short USB cables, like a 6" Standard to mini for charging without needing a six foot cord. First time you order they stick a catalog in the order, and I love just browsing for the 'wow, I didn't know I needed that' items. Sometimes web storefronts are harder to just browse, though much better for finding something, if you know something exists, what it is called, and how to phrase the search.