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Implement Creative's X-Fi audio processor as on-board audio on all mainstream and enthusiast Dell PCs


shiningarcanine
05/04/07		 Integrated audio on many PCs is very poor and uses the computer processor to process audio data. Creative hinted a while back that it was interested in licensing its X-Fi audio processor to third party vendors and recently it licensed its X-Fi audio processor to Auzentech, which will be debuting a sound card based on it later this year. Given the cost of Creative's X-Fi XtremeAudio sound card, it should not be too expensive to license it and then have whatever company (Asus, I think) that makes Dell's motherboard's for it to make it the integrated audio processor on the motherboard. Having such an audio processor on all mainstream and enthusiast Dell PCs would give Dell an advantage over its competitors, as an integrated audio processor is very appealing, especially to those in the enthusiast community who would very likely find an integrated audio processor to give Dell PCs an advantage over all others when they consider buying a PC, as in Dell's XPS desktops, more expansion slots will be avaliable and in Dell's notebooks, the audio will be the best available audio on the market.