Laptop audio quality is often given little coverage, but it makes a meaningful difference in daily use. Here are our top picks for laptops with excellent sound.
Laptops with great speakers often seem few and far between, but there are a number of great-sounding laptops out there if you know where to look. Our reviews tend to focus on performance, displays, build quality, and other factors that go into making the best laptops, but we like to take a closer look at laptop audio, too. Where most laptops don't sound too good, there are some that are much more impressive.
The MacBook Pro 14 and 16 are newer additions to the MacBook family that have elevated this already excellent lineup. They're incredibly well-built, they feature the super-fast Apple M1 Plus and Pro CPUs, and their displays feature Apple XDR mini-LED technology for incredible brightness, colors, and contrast.
The MacBook Air M2 is a complete redesign with a new thin 0.44-inch chassis that makes it one of the thinnest laptops. That doesn't detract from its build quality, though, which is as rock-solid as all MacBooks. The aesthetic no longer features a taper but rather looks a lot like the larger MacBook Pro machines, giving it the same elegant yet simplified look. Apple's M2 processor is on hand to provide exceptional performance and battery life.
If you're a creator who's looking for a large display to work on, the XPS 17 is probably your best choice. It's surprisingly thin and light, given its excellent 17.3-inch panel, and it packs in high-end components like 45-watt Intel 12th-generation CPUs and Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3060 GPU. Productivity workers will love the screen real estate, and video and photo editors will love the laptop's relative portability.
The XPS 15 features the traditional XPS build quality and elegant aesthetics, combined with a thin and light chassis and fast 45-watt Intel 12th-gen CPUs and up the Nvidia's GeForce 3050 Ti. The XPS 15 is a strong competitor to either the MacBook Pro 14 or 16, with solid performance and good battery life for a Windows 15-inch machine. The available OLED display is spectacular, while the 4K+ IPS panel offers class-leading color width and accuracy.
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