It’s not a huge deal really, well, other than my husband teasing me about my uber-geekness which means that lately when I’ve been working I have both computer’s running side by side. For the most part I’ll be doing blog assignments or readings using the laptop and have a movie or music going on the desktop computer, but if I have to do graphic work I switch things out and use the desktop and have background noise or a Netflix movie going on the laptop, and occasionally chat to friends over IM at the same time.

However on Monday when I did this for the first time I realized that there’s a big difference in the quality of sound because of my computer speakers. The desktop computer has external speakers, they’re pretty basic Altic Lansing speakers, but they’re still a lot better than the internal speakers that the laptop has. Even with the sound cranked up all the way on the laptop you can sometimes barely hear what’s going on in a film if the characters are speaking in low voices. I remember now that we used to have separate external speakers for the laptop because we used to hook it up to the TV and watch shows through it and there were tons of times that you couldn’t hear what was going on because the show was running on the laptop so turning up the sound on the TV itself didn’t affect the volume in the slightest, something that my father-in-law could never quite grasp.

I can see that I’m going to be switching out the USB port our speakers are hooked in to if I keep this up because I can’t justify buying a second set of speakers for the laptop when I use it that way so rarely, and I’m not doing much in the way of hard core gaming on either computer any more. The most I do is play Sims 2 every once in a while.