laptop subwoofer, a bad choice

hi friends! i've seen a few lappies with built in subwoofer recently..i think that this is quite dangerous to have in a laptop. The subwoofer will cause the air to vibrate and this air will propagate in the laptop chassis and will cause the components to vibrate. This will surely have a negative impact on the components of the laptop. When the subwoofer is on, the components will be in constant vibration..I'm sure that this will shorten the lifetime of the laptop.. what are your opinions??

 

i'm actually quite worried about noises that could cause the notebook to vibrate too! such as putting a powerful speake/subwoofer near the computer which is , knocking the table the computer was in, etc.

the most fragile component of a laptop that is susecptible to this; is the hard drive.

should i be worried?

admitedly i'm a bit paranoid... any comments?

 

yeah! i'm a bit wary of the side effects with the components..my advice will be to stay away from laptop which have built in subwoofer.. Better buy a separate one and connect it to a usb sound card

 

Do you not think you should leave this stuff up to the laptop manufacturer?

I would have thought they'd put a lot of decision making into whether a laptop should have a subwoofer - not only in what the gains to the laptop are, but also in the potential problems and issues that may come out of it.

In my eyes if a laptop has a subwoofer it must've passed all the feasibility studies at the design stage, thrown up no new issues in manufacturing and the test versions functioned fine aswell.

I wouldn't not buy a laptop because it has a subwoofer. Not that I'd specifically care enough for it having a subwoofer either

 

what do the users of alienware m9750 think???

 

I've used an Inspiron 9100 with subwoofer for a LONG time. No issues. If it were an XPS M1330 instead.. I'd probably be worried.. maybe.

 

I'm an electrical engineer, the force of the vibrations from any speaker that can fit inside a laptop case will have nearly zero effect on any component in a laptop.

As you correctly guessed, the most vulnerable component is the HDD, but look at any HDD operating specifications, they are rated to handle G shocks while operating. The vibrations due to a subwoofer are 100th/1000ths of a single G force. Also I'm sure Dell and other major computer manufacturers have much higher paid engineers than me to figure stuff like this out

 

I would not be worried, but who uses laptop speakers for music? Hook up a real set of speakers if you wanna hear something more than the windows beeps.

 

I guess I'm not seeing the point in having a small subwoofer in a laptop anyways. You can probably get more bass out of a cheap 2.0 system.