What the Dell XPS 15 could teach gaming laptops about good sound

With 300Hz panels, real-time ray tracing, and 8-core CPUs, gaming laptops today are leaps and bounds better than they were just five years ago—except for one area: sound quality.

In fact, after working our way through gaming laptops from just about every PC vendor you can name, the only thing we can conclude is that gaming PC laptops just don’t care about PC audio. Sure, they’ll put a sticker on the laptop’s body proclaiming, “Audio by X,” but our ears don’t lie: They’re almost all subpar.

Before we get too far down this blame game, we’ll note that larger gaming laptops generally don’t suffer this fate. But by larger laptop, we speak of Acer’s brutal 10-pound. Predator Helios 700 or Alienware’s 8-pound Area 51m. Both laptops are huge desktop replacement models.

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