> There's no builtin speakers in the author's mac studio though, so I'll give them a pass for this one.
Don't all Macs come with a built-in speaker? I.e. the one that plays the start-up chime, and plays "system sounds" like emptying the trash.
On Mac notebooks and AIOs, this is one-and-the-same as the obvious external speaker array used as the default output device; but on desktop Macs (like the Mac Mini — don't know about the Mac Studio), it's a separate little speaker hidden somewhere inside the chassis. (It's like the old concept of a "PC speaker", but this one is hooked up to a DAC and routable as a regular audio device, rather than only being able to play tones from a PIT.)
Wow, i would have thought given the Studio price you'd be getting the same speaker as in the current MacPro, which is pretty decent compared to the tinny PoS in the M1 Mini (og version is my experience)
Don't all Macs come with a built-in speaker? I.e. the one that plays the start-up chime, and plays "system sounds" like emptying the trash.
On Mac notebooks and AIOs, this is one-and-the-same as the obvious external speaker array used as the default output device; but on desktop Macs (like the Mac Mini — don't know about the Mac Studio), it's a separate little speaker hidden somewhere inside the chassis. (It's like the old concept of a "PC speaker", but this one is hooked up to a DAC and routable as a regular audio device, rather than only being able to play tones from a PIT.)