Nowadays, you will generally find that the sound quality of the new model PCs and laptops is not as good as you used to see in the earlier models. So to get the same feel as the earlier PC or laptop ...
If these were the early 2000s. We would have said that having a sound card is a flex. With good reason, too. You'd slap one into your PC, crank up a media player, and pretend you were mastering audio.
The death of the headphone jack has been widely lamented. Pick up a flagship phone and you won't see one, it's gone and it's not likely to come back. But that doesn't mean we're left using Bluetooth ...