Speakers for MacBook

I recently bought a new Black Macbook and am very happy wih everything except the sound. Its just too soft. Now, I wasn't sure where to post this (so my apologies if this is not the right place), but what speakers would you recommend for me? I play guitar (quite loudly I should add), and like to play along with the song sometimes. So I need speakers that are reasonably loud and have good sound. I'm willing to pay anything up to about $400... Anything from the apple store would be great (if you could provide a link to the speakers your refering to, it would help quite alot). Thanks...

Hi there
I recently got myself an apple ipod speaker, and it is LOUD, I live in a 2 storey house with solid walls, I can hear the speaker in the living room from upstairs and its not even at full volume. Sound quality wise, its acceptable, the old fashion hi-fi system would be better since you can place the speakers at either side of the room. But then there's gona b wires laying around the place, whereas this Apply hi-fi just needs a power cable and an ipod and you are set (it has a sound input in the back for you to plug in other devices like a CD player and of course your macbook).
And here's a link to the speaker: http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=EA7 50468&nplm=M9867LL/A

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