I'm definitely going to call BS on this one. There's no way in hell it's a true stereo speaker setup. Maybe the reviewer in question heard sound coming from both grills as sound echoed through the chassis or maybe he's as confused as the people who claim one of the speakers on their iPhone isn't working.
Look at the facts available at this time.
-The image on Apple's web site points to 1 grill location and labels it "speaker." If it had stereo speakers, they would have the lines pointing to both grills and marketing surely wouldn't miss the opportunity to say "stereo speakers". Better yet, marketing types would probably throw some color into it with "high fidelity", "immersive", or other BS lingo.
-The headphone jack notes that it's stereo. Duh! Why worry about that and not note that they addressed one of the criticisms when compared to the competition?
-The specs table also lists "speaker" in the singular form. All other products (iMac, MBA, MBP, etc) list "stereo speakers" in their specs grid. The only ones that don't? The Mini and the Pro, that have mono speaker setups.
Feedback from the field is:
-This guy stating that it's stereo, and claims that Apple confirmed it (no cited source).
-Others who asked while participating in the hands-on sessions who asked the "handlers" of the devices and were told it's not stereo.
Not to mention the fact that even if it were stereo, putting both on one side would just be flat out dumb. A bit like buying a 7.1 theater system for the house and setting all the speakers in one corner of the room.
I'll eat crow if stereo turns out to be true, but I don't think it will happen. Oh, and I wouldn't count BS stereo claims (i.e. single speaker with dual ports, dual voice coil drivers on a single cone, the fact that it can interpret a stereo signal and create a "stereo space", or any crap like that).
