@Sobex You mean in terms of speaker audio quality? It's still much better than the vast majority of the competition, though as @chadmed said a few times, their DSP is too tryhard (this bug aside).

The drivers are decent, their EQ is reasonably good, the equal-loudness processing is a good idea (we're doing that too), and the speaker safety modeling stuff lets them safely crank them pretty loud. Those things alone are already more than most laptops do by far. Whether the rest of Apple's DSP helps or sounds good/bad is debatable, but those basics already make them stand out.