Recommendations for building a dedicated external speaker from an older computer
You also have to deal with how much of the sound comes from the speaker's enclosure.
Unless you're sawing up and recycling the relevant parts of the macbook case (or re-using the entire case as the enclosure) you're left with a huge problem determining what aspects of the case design really matter and replicating them, or tuning the frequency response of the electronics to match the (ah but how do you measure it?) response of the enclosure you're fitting them into.
This is not trivial and may be quite surprising. Not only will the precise hole pattern of the grille matter, but the designers probably accounted for acoustic reflections off the LCD screen.
Or consider what you are making as an entirely new product with its own sonic characteristics.
The subtleties can fill entire books and while a laptop's speaker will not even remotely qualify as &quot;high quality&quot; in that book's terms, Apple's designers will have gone to some length to make the best of the space and power they had.