as most people knows, laptop speakers sucks quite badly.
so i cut up some old headphone cable and used the plug
to connect a real speaker to the laptop

closeup of tape connection

upside:
after sitting outside drinking,barbequing and
listening to music without any annoying distortions
from crappy laptop speakers i can certainly say that it works nicely :)
downside:
i had to put all volumes to max(even use the winamp EQ to boost the volume a bit)
to get a good volume, i think this has to do with the fact that the headphone output
of my laptop barely copes with driving a 15watt speaker, i should try to get some
smaller speakers for next time :)

/jonas lund