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Not sure why a laptop really needs better speakers (or even any speakers) both of mine are permanently hooked up to headphones.
by C1sc0cat 8y ago
Not sure why a laptop really needs better speakers (or even any speakers) both of mine are permanently hooked up to headphones.
- sumedh 8y agoBecause some people dont like to use headphones. Some couples prefer watching a movie in bed.
- inawarminister 8y agoEasily solved with a Bluetooth speaker, unlike say dust-vulnerable KBs...
- sumedh 8y agoWhat if you dont carry your speaker everywhere?
- inawarminister 8y agoyour scenario was about a couple watching movies in bed, though... To be honest, I really love my rMBP 2014 hardware, it was basically perfect. Great speaker, as you say, good enough keyboard, BEST display, etc. If Apple releases another MBP based on 2015 I'll take a quite good look again.
- 4ad 8y agoI only use my laptop when I am traveling. At home, I have no need for it. I am not traveling with speakers. I doubt I am alone.
- sumedh 8y agoAre you really going to carry around a bluetooth speaker in everyroom though, if someone wants to watch it on the couch?
- dahfizz 8y agoDo people not have TVs?
- allannienhuis 8y agoHow many rooms in a house do people really watch movies in? A couple of bluetooth speakers covers the 95% case, and just using the crappy laptop speakers or use earbuds or headphones for the 5% case. Of course it would be nicer if the laptop had better speakers in it, but there are always trade-offs to be made on cost vs benefit, and fairly cheap bluetooth speakers are a pretty good workaround for a lot of people.
- sumedh 8y agoNot sure why you call the macbooks speakers crappy, i would imagine most people would consider them good enough and be happy with then instead of dealing with external Bluetooth speakers and carrying them around with the laptop.
- allannienhuis 8y agoMy comment wasn't meant to be macbook specific. Most laptop speakers don't sound as nice as a reasonable set of bluetooth speakers or headphones. The main point of my comment was to counter the (strawman) idea that the only option for someone who didn't like the laptop speaker was to carry around a bluetooth speaker with them from room to room, which is of course not very practical. But having a couple of them strategically placed in the house is affordable and practical for most cases.
- C1sc0cat 8y agoAh like the annoying teenagers on the bus sodcasting
- newen 8y agoWhy would you even argue for bad speakers for laptops? Of course a laptop should have good speakers..