Nope. Back in the 20th Century, I used to. But these days I listen to my iPhone or iPod Touch – no headphones, I just let it play through the speakers.

That said, I don’t listen to much music, I generally listen to podcasts – since buying my iPod in June this year, I’ve listened to 3 or 5 songs on it. The rest was just podcasts. For music, I listen to the radio.

I would if the speakers on my Dell Studio were a) any good and b) actually got loud.

While I was expecting the same experience as listening to proper speakers the built-in speakers on this laptop don’t go very loud and sound quality gets real bad when it does.

It’s so bad that when I need to listen to something I have to drag the laptop into the kitchen and attach my long cable headphones otherwise I can’t hear the laptop clearly over the water pipes, boiling pans etc

(Yes, I know I could do with getting an MP3 player but I need a 32GB one to cope with my music collection and all the ones with that much memory cost far more than I’m currently willing to pay)

Nimzi Vibro Max. Never travel without it. Mostly DVDs, but music and podcasts too.

Tim, I listen through my laptop speakers a lot, generally Spotify. It is a media laptop, but I will admit they’re still not the best quality. Still, I prefer to listen like this rather than cart peripherals around with a portable computer.
I feel your pain when they get on at you about this on the podcast…

The speakers on my Zepto laptop are more than loud enough – they lacking in the the treble and bass department when compared to my 10 year old Trust 2.0 stereo set or my newer JBL Creature II’s in my desktop but the convienience factor makes it a no brainer.

The speakers in all my laptops and netbook are pretty awful – so in the office I have a set of powered speakers plugged into the headphone output, and I have an unpowered set of small speakers which are (still) far better than the onboard speakers. If I absolutely must, I’ll forgo outboard speakers.

Argh… we have a missing variable here. What music are people listening to? Apple speakers seem neatly aligned with cool San Francisco jazz, and there’s a strong link between us stadium rock (Bon Jovi…) and lower-end C laptop capability. Thing is, if you are a 90’s refugee then Prodigy, Oakenfold, Deep Dish and Fatboy Slim just do not work without some watts in the area. So when yo usay how yo ulisten, please mention what you listen to!

I use my laptop speakers, but only when it’s convenient, they are OK for doing things like listening to music or watching the odd program, but you can’t beat the PC ones with the proper bass system.

I sometimes listen to music on my Acer Aspire 5920, the quality is OK, but its the flexibility that really adds to the appeal.

All the time – it’s a Gateway laptop (US version), the speakers are not ‘hi-fi’ but perfectly adequate especially while travelling. Headphones? My ears ache after about an hour and I’ve tried many makes both over-the-ear and ear canal types.
Besides why carry yet more cables to tangle with all the stuff in your case (as they do, are they alive?)

Can’t cope with headphones and laptop speakers are good for beeps. When away from home (ie, abroad) I use a flatpacking stereo pair plugging into headphone socket. Just the job for medium fi.

I listen to music radio (on ‘listen again’) through my laptop when I’m using my cross-trainer. The laptop is portable, I don’t want to have to move peripherals to use it properly but I’d love it if it had better sound. Recommendations for my next laptop would be nice.

I am a music loving and spent almost my spare time with nice music.I also love to listen with my laptop speakers but not all places.I have a iPod having really good sound so at some crowded places i prefer to use my ipod rather that laptop.