The Beats is referring to the headphone jack, not the speaker

Beats Audio actually really only refers to the audio processing out the headphone jack. Straight from the horse's mouth I watched a youtube video of an HP Marketing manager characterize the beats audio as "from the headphone jack". Adding two extra speakers was just their throw-away...'sure lets toss that in' and isn't to be taken as part of the "Beats Audio" package. All of the HP beats audio promo lit and vids characterize it as coming from the headphone jack.

What you get
1. No metal parts for the audio jack reducing any grounding static
2. Isolated ground and L/R audio signal to increase fidelity ("to the headphone jack")
3. Isolated on-board "audio island" for audio processing to reduce background noise from the CPU, GPU, and other electrical noise.

taken from 1st post: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2157748

This post has been edited by lee_what2004: Jan 17 2012, 03:06 PM

What about the i7 N55 ? HD?

Z also has the better screen quality, one of the best you could get in 13'' form factor notebook, but comes with integrated RAM and SSD, so no upgrading.

Vostro V131 ? If want light.

^Still no user review..