chadsmo

The name doesn’t NEED to be tied to anything. It just needs to sound right to consumers.

My guess would be M2.

An added bonus perhaps yes but not a driving factor in sales.

I feel like 99% of people who buy these new laptops likely don’t care about gaming at all.

That’s fair. I like to own specific things for specific reasons in some cases. Airpods Max for my AppleTV at night and listening to music at home, sometimes out of the house. Xbox wireless headset for Series X , Sony’s headset for the PS5 and AirPods Pro for out and about and talking on the phone. If I did music creation I’d likely have a dedicated pair for that too.

Mind if I ask why a 3.5mm jack is important to you ? I’m genuinely curious as someone who wants to live with as few cords as possible.

AirPods Pro and Max both have good to great sound.

Which is fair , but the tone of your post implied the issue was letting in outside noise. At least that’s how I read it.

Transparency mode solves that issue and then some.

Or. Buy this one and you won’t even see the notch in the menu bar after 5 minutes just like the phone.

Well we refuse to get climate change and global warming under any semblance of control so by 2060 it’s going to be pretty rough going out there. If you told me you went to the future and the population of the earth was 10m people in 2075 I wouldn’t be surprised.