Misterious jack around the iBook headphone jack?

[Mol]

There is a misterious jack around the headphone jack in the iBooks.
What is it for? Someone has an idea?

 

[Over Achiever]

Video out port, used to mirror the iBook screen onto an external VGA-compatible moniter. The iBook comes with the VGA dongle that connects to that port.

 

[occam]

remote control (a la iPod audio jack)?

remote control (a la iPod audio jack)?

 

[RBMaraman]

What model iBook did you see this "mysterious" jack on? My 500mhz iBook has a little external reset button located to the top and right of the headphone jack. Could this be what you're speaking of?

 

[t^3]

I think this as already been discussed before, but the mysterious port surrounds the audio out port only on the April 2002 and later iBooks and PowerBooks, but I don't recall seeing it on the recently released PowerBooks. MOSR once claimed it as a possible digital input for future DLD's, though.

 

[peterjhill]

There is nothing special about the Ti800DVI headphone jack, fyi

 

[zac4mac]

Can't add much, but I have an original iPod and an 800Combo 12" iBook. Both have the same connector for audio out, but the remote does nothing(that I could find) when plugged into the iBook.

Z