[philliphaydon]

Not sure if you've ever owned a Dell laptop, but I'll never buy one again. On a couple of occasions I have tried to play DVD's on them and cannot hear people talking with the volume up. Put headphones on and its too loud. Dell speakers are junk.

[EpicEng]

I've owned two. Both "died" shortly (very shortly) after the warranty expired. On both, the connector from the mobo to the power input cracked right off (I never yanked, dropped, or otherwise abused them. Just normal use.) I could fix it, but it was a pain, and the stress points didn't change, so it just happened again.

On the second, the screen began to go at 14 months. I would never by consumer electronics from Dell again.

[aestra]

Um in my experience all laptop speakers of all brands are like that.

[TillE]

I've watched a number of films on a Macbook Air without that particular problem.

They are still terrible speakers, though. I almost laughed when showing a friend Star Wars for the first time; it doesn't even come close to doing the soundtrack justice.

[philliphaydon]

I run Windows 8.1 on my MBP/r and don't have that issue at all.

External DVD Drive, play one of my DVDs on the Mac, audio is perfectly fine.

Play the same DVD on my Asus UX31, cannot hear the people talking, use VLC player to up the audio to 125% and its fine.

[skriticos2]

No. I have a System76 Ubuntu laptop and the speaker quality is excellent. Plays music nicely and sound is clear and crisp. How many quality laptops do you have experience with?

[aestra]

Never had a System76, but I've owned a few Asus and a Toshiba and when I lived with 5 other people in college, the topic came up and we all agreed on the quality of our respective laptop speakers. Of course I was in college quite a while ago.