Bose Companion 2 Multimedia Speakers

I just bought the Bose Companion 2 Multimedia Speakers from Best Buy but originally saw them on the apple page. I can not hook them up. In the booklet they say they are a PC speaker system. Why would apple have them rated as the best? Thanks for any help in advance.

Are these the speakers you have?
http://www.bose.com/controller?event=VIEWPRODUCT_PAGE_EVENT&product=companion2_multimediaindex
You should be able to connect them as long as you have the right cables.
You will need one with a mini headphone plug(like ones for headphones for an ipod etc) on one end and two rca (red and white) on the other.
The rca go into the back of the speaker and the other into the headphone socket on your macbook.
You might not have the right cables included but it will work.
What you need is something like this (but not this long)
http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-F8V235-12-12-Foot-Audio-Cable/dp/B000067RBT/ref=pdbbs2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1198718051&sr=8-2
Cheers

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