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skd

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I got my son a macbook for christmas. He is not happy with speakers on the macbook for listening to music. What's a good speaker arrangement for the MB for listening to music?
 
I can recommend out of experience that the jbl creature 2.1 speaker system is excellent, but do mean external speakers? These jbl speakers are a good price too.
 
by listening to music do you mean just you rockin it solo or the ability to kick it up a notch and play it for a house party?
 
he's a college student...so it would be mostly for in his room at his desk.
 
I have a 2.1 setup which are the Creative I-Trigue 3300, but it seems like a little much for a laptop. You prolly want something like 2.0. You could go to newegg.com and do an advanced search for all 2.0 speakers and let him choose which one he wants.
 
I got my son a macbook for christmas. He is not happy with speakers on the macbook for listening to music. What's a good speaker arrangement for the MB for listening to music?

If my parents ever got me something like a macbook for christmas--which they wouldnt have because they're not for sale at value city--and i THEN complained about the speakers, I would have gotten a slap in the face, well proverbially at least.

Anyhow, if you want cheap, powerful music listening go with cambridge soundworks..... http://www.hifi.com They have ones called pcworks or soundworks, get the cheapest ones, they'll do the job.
 
If my parents ever got me something like a macbook for christmas--which they wouldnt have because they're not for sale at value city--and i THEN complained about the speakers, I would have gotten a slap in the face, well proverbially at least.

Exactly what I was thinking 🙂
 
You have to admit that the speakers on th MB are pretty lame. Thanks for the suggestions.
 
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