speakers on monitors!!!

[shiato storm]

WHY!!

they are so god aweful there's no point in having them! are they only there to squeeze a few more pennies out of us? I've been looking at tfts and many of them have seakers attached!

[kushtibari]

Just got an HP f2304 for work and the speakers on that are actually not too bad. Iiyama 431 at home is abysmal though, only good for the odd beep and nowt else.

[Atomic]

Why? Your average home computer user wants them.

[shiato storm]

well, i guess we're all above average aren't we?
I'd rather save the money and NOT have speakers integrated on the TFT so I can spend whats saved on a decent set of speakers...ok i don't need massive surround sound, but some of the 2.1 systems are pretty decent and reasonable. I'd sacrifice monitor speakers for that - even if total cost is a little higher! its just not wasted on a redundand set on the monitor which would mean I'd get extrnal set anyway

[unrealrocks]

They are for odd bleeps and bloops - for what an office user uses a PC for its enough.

[Stompy]

Yeh, would be nice if certain models were available without speakers. E.g, I include 2.1 or 5.1 speakers with PCs I build, and I use the best value 17" TFT at the time, whether it has speakers or not, since most have speakers.