Well, it's also a wild compromise to say the warranty is void by installing popular software. If they would instead say, the warranty is void if you go above such and so threshold for such and so long (no matter with what software), that would make sense, but this, just seems a cheap way of making the warranty unexistent.

Anyway, a moderator from Dell replied that you can contact him if Dell refuses to give support just by seeing VLC installed, so maybe it's better than it seems.

Yeah, it's nonsense that they are straight up blaming VLC.

(But I don't think it is obviously unreasonable to sell a cheap laptop with cheap speakers, configured to be able to make louder peaks)

Thats like saying that you can't have 100% for more than 2 seconds because it would cause instability.

Speakers shouldn't melt because of software (unless there is dodgy firmware.)

> (and it's not like a spec relating the max energy/time is going to help most shoppers

Actually, speakers are speced in terms of RMS wattage...which is exactly that.