Sounds about right.

Was looking into a Dell laptop a couple of years ago, and wondered if it supported SPDIF digital audio out.

Extremely sarky woman who seemed annoyed at having to actually work then procalimed that SPDIF is now a defunct standard, and Dell wouldn't be supporting it anymore. When asked what standard they would be supporting in the future, she hung up!

Needless to say, I bought a laptop elsewhere.