Twelve South BassJump Macbook Subwoofer
Twelve South has released a new accessory for Macbooks, the Twelve South BassJump Macbook Subwoofer.
The Twelve South BassJump is an add on subwoofer for your Apple MacBook, its plugs into your MacBook via USB and is designed to turn it into a mini sound system.
Designed exclusively for MacBook, BassJump is a sweet, one-of-a-kind, go anywhere, USB-powered subwoofer that turns your MacBook into a mini sound system. One single USB cable delivers power and sound. Custom software blends the music coming out of your built-in speakers with the sound output of the BassJump for dramatically enhanced audio performance.
The Twelve South BassJump is also powered via USB and it uses the existing speakers on your MacBook as well as the speaker inside the BassJump.
If you want one the Twelve South BassJump Macbook Subwoofer is available now for $80 from Twelve South.
via Gadget Lab
November 25th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
What I’m wondering is if the BassJump speaker works with other Mac models as well. Unless Twelve South’s software *implicitly* ties it to Mac laptop hardware, can you use the BassJump subwoofer with other Macs? Is it a one-trick pony – or more versatile? Certainly it’s style compliments a Mac mini – who’s built-in speaker desperately could use some help.
Harmon-Kardon’s somewhat similar iSub sub-woofer worked with a wide range of Mac models – although it was initially introduced to compliment H-K Odessey speakers of the Slot-Load iMacs. But that depended on OSX-level hooks to allow sub adjustment in Sound Preferences.