For the sound setup, the audio out somewhat worked right out of the box. The levels were a little unpleasant but overall it was fine. The auto detection for the internal speakers and headphones worked and even the volume buttons on the keyboard were detected properly. However when you would try to mute the sound or reduce the volume all of the way it would not completely mute. You could still hear the audio.

I searched around on a fix for this but everyone said you just had to play around with your sound preferences until it worked properly. However no one would share what their configuration was. Below is what was able to setup to get it to work properly.

System - Preferences - Sound

Volume Control Preferences (on the task bar)

Volume Control

Because I am a big fan of voice chat and a heavy Skype user I needed the the microphone to be able to record my voice. It took me a while to figure out the configuration to get Skype running (see the screen shots above). The auto detection for the input jack versus the internal microphone doesn’t work, but I don’t use an external microphone all the much so it didn’t matter to me.