Does my W500 have an SDIF interface or not?

I am trying to do some high-end audio stuff on my Thinkpad W500, which requires having very low-latency audio, and I'm running into all kinds of strange problems. 
Upon the recommendation of several audio forums I installed the ASIO4ALL driver, but oddly it can only see an SDIF interface for my sound card, not the ordinary headphone/speaker jack. Even stranger, there doesn't seem to be an SDIF interface on the machine. Windows thinks the SDIF interface is attached to the "rear panel", but unless it's referring to the HDMI port, I can't find such a thing. I've searched around and while I found a couple of things that might imply some sort of docking station one needs to actually use SDIF, I haven't found anything definite. Can anyone help clear this up for me?
The other issues are less likely to be Lenovo-specific, but if anyone has insight about any of the following I'd also really appreciated it:
Why does ASIO4ALL only see the SDIF interface? Other audio software sees both SDIF and regular speaker interfaces for the sound card (Conexant 20561 SmartAudio)
Why do does some software (e.g. Reaper) give me the option to use the WSAPI driver in exclusive mode, but others (e.g. Maschine) only let me use shared mode, which has higher latency?
Thanks to anyone who can help me out! 

Puppy wrote:
ThorsHammer wrote: Like lead_org, I heard the display is IPS.  Just looking for authoritative confirmation. 
Here is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jQQqeZ7_gU a short video of it. Unfortunately its quality is not very good to judge. There are several shots of the display from various angles (1:20 - 1:30, 2:00 - 2:05, 2:57 - 3:01). Moreover 2:27 is a very short shot from top angle where you can find that the white X1 text goes away. Typical sign of TN panel. 3:35 - 3:50 shows detail of Windows taskbar and its contrast does not seem to be very good (for IPS panel).
But again, due to poor quality of the video it is still a speculation.
Thanks for the link.  It's incredible to me that members of the press and other journalists haven't asked the simple question of what the screen technology is for the production units.  Nevermind none of them have asked if the screen in the video is actually the same screen that will be used in production units.
Meanwhile we get to wait for Lenovo to trickle out information over months...
This is one thing I do like about Apple.  When they announce something, it's the entire specification and you can buy it within hours, not months.

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