On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 12:25:11 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
'Buried in the announcement of the new Kaby Lake (seventh-generation) processors and a rash of incoming notebooks set to use them is the confirmation that they will have a Windows 10 future. Microsoft has been warning people for ages that Kaby Lake will not run on anything older than Windows 10...'
-- source: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/09/01/2031247
Or just use a Linux distro flavor of your choice...
Also worth mentioning is that Kaby Lake is a kind of interim chip generation. For many years, Intel has been running a “tick-tock” schedule, where each “tick” took an existing processor design and moved it to a new chip fabrication process, followed by a “tock” that created the next-generation processor design once the new process had become more familiar. But it’s getting harder (not to say more expensive) to keep shrinking those transistors, and falling PC sales haven’t helped. Hence Kaby Lake. Also, one of the new features in these processors is hardware support for 4K video playback, with DRM <http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/intel-unveils-kaby-lake-its-first-post-tick-tock-cpu-architecture/>. On the (somewhat) bright side, one commenter here <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/30/intel_core_7th_gen/> points out that the Thunderbolt support allows external hardware to snoop main RAM, opening the possibility of a, ahem, “security hole” that would allow access to unencrypted video...