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Is MacBook Air's speakers as bad as the ones on the Mini?
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The speaker on the mini is like a PC speaker (The one on the motherboard). Good for beeps and stuff but not for listening. The MacBook Air speakers are good. At least on the M2 but I suspect even the older ones are good.
I am always pleasantly surprised by the audio quality of my M1 MacBook Air speakers. They have this surround sound effect that is very cool when watching a YouTube video with some dialogue. Music, well, it's fine but not ground breaking.
The M2 MacBook Air is rubbish too. The worst speakers I have heard on a laptop yet, which includes my 6-year old+ MacBook Pro’s.
Even my iPad has better speakers.
I think the M1 MBA and the M2 MBA have pretty good speakers. The Mini speakers are bad.
my M2 air sounds decent... with a little tweaking from boom 3D; i don't use the '3D' effect, just the EQ (and a little goes a long way). but sounds pretty good, for what it is.
the mini speaker is, by design, useless (except, as @russell_314 points out, good for 'beeps and stuff'); i've never used it tho.
the mini speaker is, by design, useless (except, as @russell_314 points out, good for 'beeps and stuff'); i've never used it tho.
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Apple desktops always have speakers built in. Every Mac mini and Power Mac G3+/Mac Pro has one. As stated above though, they are mostly meant for monitoring system sounds under circumstances where external speakers are unrealistic or simply unnecessary.
