Give me a laptop without speakers, without a camera, native Linux support, AMD CPU and GPU, with usb C charging, support for a fully functional dock with multimonitor support, Asus Zephyrus Pro Duo-style dual screens and, for the love of God, good battery backup. You will have my money.

Laptop speakers get a lot of use for most people with remote work. It doesn't make any sense from the manufacturer's perspective to sell a laptop with no speakers—the market for such a thing is small and the extra manufacturing variant would add cost.

I'm sure some people have use for it, but, as someone how's worked remotely a lot during the last decade, I've never had a need for laptop speakers.

Just like I've never had a need, on laptops, for optical drives, card readers, and lots of other features.

Sure, there's an audience, but adding bulk+cost+complexity to ALL laptops shouldn't be necessary.

You can have specialised laptops with ethernet+card readers+speakers for people who need extra hardware capabilities, without including this on mainstream general purpose laptops.

Open up the laptop and unplug the speakers :) ... unless the speaker connection in newer laptops are soldered on too.

Of course that doesn't address the space issue.

Yeah, I'm thinking more of a laptop engineering without one. That space could either be saved or used for extra battery. It also allows for dropping some extra circuits I'm sure.

With the circuits, you mean an amplifier? Because the Jack out will need the same signal as the speakers, but less amplified.

I'd be happy to see the jack dropped too, TBH. I've had bluetooth headsets since 2008.

Disagree. Sometimes I'm in a call or need to watch a video and I don't have my earphones nearby, or -- rarely -- the bluetooth connection doesn't work properly. I like having the option.