Mac help: why is my sound gone?

I think that don’t circle sign on the icon means it’s on mute…

nope, not on mute. :)
It has that ‘don’t’ sign even when the sound it at what should be full volume.
in my System Preferences, in the ‘output’ it says there are no devices found.
and the sound icon, that speaker looking thing, is just not there on my top bar, next to where the battery life icon is.

ooo looks like Mac isn’t as flawless as everyone says it is.

I would try deleting this file.
/yourusername/Library/Preferences/com.apple.soundpref.plist and restarting.

If that doesn’t help you could try making a new user account and see if the problem occurs in that account too. That can help us see if it is a system wide problem of specific to your account.

@MrGeneVan, anybody who actually uses one will tell you the Mac ain’t flawless. Regardless, it’s still superior by almost all meaningful measure to Windows.

@robmandu everyone i know that owns a mac say’s that it’s flawless