Laptop Choice?

h, and what's with HP not enabling the front headphone port on their workstations? I have a brand new Z400 or something and the fucking headphone port LOOKS connected but does nothing. I don't imagine there's a BIOS setting for this but who the truck knows. Again.. little things that are annoying. Not as annoying as DIY mind you, but annoying.

YES! FUCKING YES! This one of the most annoying fucking things I've come across - I use this same station and I can have headphones plugged into the rear jack, headphones plugged into the front and hear sound coming from separate programmes on both AND hear a third set of audio coming from the front inbuilt speakers. What the fuck is that about?

Weirder still - say I'm using... Adobe Premiere (for example) - when I'm capturing video I can hear the sound on the capture window playing through the rear headphone jack but not the front. Then, when I'm just playing video within premiere on the timeline from a sequence, I cant hear through headphones from the rear or front jack but only through the inbuilt speakers.

This is not cool.