Speaker quality

Best Idea? Get a pair of headphones. Seriously.

Laptop sound quality will not be something you can use for mixing at all, it doesn't matter what laptop you are using. It is a matter of physics and encolsure design for the most part. A pair of decent headphones will serve you much better. Plus there is a fair amount more important in the laptop itself that should guide your choice of which one to get other than speakers(Firewire?, Ti chipset, Quiet, etc.)

In as far as what laptop speakers have the best audio quality, that I can't answer sorry.

Seablade

When you are talking about live music recording and playing, you just won't get decent sound out of a laptop. For one thing, bass response REQUIRES moving lots of air, which tends to require a large speaker, and one that is properly enclosed as well to prevent phase cancellation. Neither of these tend to work well in a laptop form factor.

Another thing is that laptop speakers tend to be intended only for a single person nearby to listen with the laptop on a desk or a lap normally. This means that manufacturers, if they bother at all with audio quality, will make the coverage of the speaker so that it is only even any semblenece of even in a relatively small area(The 'sweet spot'). So yea you really won't get anything good there.

I realise that you mentioned having headphones etc. I can't reccomend stronlgy enough that you use them for any work in that regards. Actually, while mixing on headphones isn't all that great in itself in terms of the final product, it will be much better than trying to do so with any sort of laptop speaker these days.

If, on the other hand, you are just looking for speakers for casual listening, then you can safely ignore most of what I posted. I assume from your first post however that you are looking at them to be used for mixing, which is why I stress this so strongly.

Seablade

Side Note: Its always fun to see the reaction on student's faces when they play something and say, "That isn't what I mixed!!" and have to remind them that mixing on headphones is very different from mixing on monitors. One of those lessons that often gets learned the hard way, but then they try not to repeat(Finances forcing repeats can be a different problem for money strapped students though

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