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Is this "Dolby DAX2" a standard component? There's no trace of it on my stock Windows 10 Surface Book.

its value added BS. Dolby tries very hard to be Creative 2.0 by pushing patented crap into standards (hdmi, bluray) to position itself as essential for hi def audio = collect patent tax.

The ubiquity of DTS in the PC and hifi market is probably scaring the crap out of them.

No, it is one of those OEM enhancements that get delivered with nice sound speakers.

Let me rephrase that: "with crap speakers to make them seem less crap".

My Dell laptop has "MAXXAUDIO PRO", which does a bunch of heavy-handed stuff to make audio sound "better." I finally found the program when I was trying to figure out why my audio levels seemed to change.. My music would get louder over time, and if I moved the volume one increment up or down, it would drop back to the normal level. Turning off the sound-mangler solved that issue and allowed my music to sound the way it's supposed to.

It really frustrates me when manufacturers include crap like that.

Yes! This is why I was thrilled when Microsoft started making their own laptops. The only thing I had to kill on this Surface Book was this annoying little popop that offered deals on Microsoft Office, and that was simple to disable--it had an uninstall button right on it.

Nope. It's some crapware that IBM bundles.

IBM's not had anything to do with ThinkPads for a decade, and hasn't had any presence in even x86 servers since 2014.

Lenovo outsourced support and maintenance of both to IBM for various markets, but that's as far as it gets.

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