Maxpuff

Searching on the website of the manufacturer I want to buy a laptop from, I found that they suggest in their official support/driver website the following video driver for a win 10 / kaby lake machine: Intel HD & Iris Graphics Drivers Version 21.20.16.4574 WHQL Driver version: 12/23/2016,21.20.16.4574 Package version: December 29, 2016 & 21.20.16.4574 WHQL: oui Official: non OS: Windows 7/8/8.1/10/Server2016 Systems: 64bits (X64) Platforms: 7th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) processor family (Codename Kaby Lake)... Seems to be a good sign if I want to install win7 on this new machine.

Something similar has been tried and the details of the result can be found here: https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Intel-Prozessoren-Kaby-Lake-unter-Windows-7-Geht-halbwegs-doch-3606409.html Translated with google translate: "There are other drawbacks: display errors occasional when scaling windows, Google Chrome can not use the VP9 decoder of the Core i3-7100. 4K videos from YouTube run anyway, but with more than 50 percent CPU load the browser leaves single frames. Also H.265- / HEVC-Videos run under Windows 7 only with additional software. When playing HEVC / H.265 videos, PowerDVD 16 Ultra also uses the hardware decoder and therefore causes less than 10 percent CPU load on the Core i3-7100 at 4K resolution; However, HEVC videos with 10 bits per color channel for HDR do not run. Because hardware decoders for VP9 and 10-bit HEVC are the main advantages of Kaby Lake compared to Skylake, there is little reason to use Kaby Lake under Windows 7." Those are the results for 21.20.16.4508, I am interested to know if 21.20.16.4526 corrects those issues if someone tried. Thanks