> While at my desk, I preferred it to the thin-sounding built-in speakers on my M4 MacBook Air.

Weird, I find the sound in my MBA to be quite good. I tried listening to podcasts through a HomePod mini and by comparison that was awful. I'd be surprised if this little IKEA speaker was substantially better than the MBA, though if so that'd be great!

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operatingthetan 13 hours ago | parent [-]

The current MBA's speakers are at least 50% worse than the MBP speakers. My last job switched me from the Pro to the Air and I had both on hand to compare and it was really disappointing.

	▲	apparent 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No doubt the MBP sounds better than the MBA, but I'd be pleasantly surprised if there were $10 options from IKEA that sound so significantly better than the MBA. If so, that just reinforces how badly Apple nerfed the HomePod mini, which is awful (for podcasts especially) by comparison.