5.1 Surround Sound on a laptop?

Yes. Having optical (Toslink or S/PDIF) outlet you will be able to connect it into a home theatre system and use the surround sound on that to get excellent sound quality from your speakers.

I was researching your computer and the sounds card you have. HP's website and SRS's website both done give specifications on how many channels they offer. Unless the laptop has a digital out, 9 times out of 10 S/PDIF connections are only two channel. In general, most laptop are not designed for surround sound.

There are cards that can be installed in desktops for 5.1 sound but laptops are limited in what one can add on. You are kinda out of luck if your laptop does not already offer 5.1.

Your computer

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docnam...

SRS Mobile Sound Cards

http://www.srslabs.com/premiumsound/srs_inside_hp....

S/PDIF connection

http://www.tech-faq.com/spdif.html

Example of 5.1 connectors...

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.a...

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get these man, 5.1 will still be amazing

http://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers/accessories/log...