I'd love to have a dac built in, but it strikes me as being a bit like the old tv-vcr combos. If the built in vcr stinks or doesn't quite meet expectations you

I'd love to have a dac built in, but it strikes me as being a bit like the old tv-vcr combos. If the built in vcr stinks or doesn't quite meet expectations you're either stuck with its subpar performance, or with the sunk cost of an unused or unusable feature. Many people might want an audio quality dac.. but 8 bit? 16? 24? Or maybe 4 bit is fine but you need 12 of them... Best to just have good peripheral support.