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Have laptops had a separate pc speaker in recent memory?

• jeroenhd 3y ago
  No, but they seem to have some kind of compatibility wrapper to emulate the PC speaker in firmware. The early boot process on my laptop has plenty of beeps and boops I can enable but nothing more advanced than that until the operating system loads a real driver. If the UEFI firmware could play sound files, the laptop would come with much friendlier sounding (less shrill) noises.
  • Dylan16807 3y ago
    A barebones single-channel sound driver shouldn't be complicated. It should also be simpler than "some kind of compatibility wrapper to emulate the PC speaker in firmware".
  • kalleboo 3y ago
    It's not a technical limitation, PC manufacturers just don't care about doing anything above the bare minimum to ship a cheap box. Sony used to put in the effort in their VAIO machines like 24 years ago and gave them high quality boot sounds https://youtu.be/wPVIubVtdRY?t=907 https://youtu.be/wPVIubVtdRY?t=907
    • WWLink 3y ago
      The Vaio chime was my favorite