My title is a bit misleading, but I will explain.
I was looking around and found the Asrock drivers and noticed only windows 10 on their website.
Now, most people will be fine with this, especially considering you'll want Win 10 to take advantage of the Direct X support on this. But I wanted to point this out in the case that you are in the 1% of people who want this machine but do NOT want to use Windows 10 exclusively. Most other essential drivers install fine on older windows, but you will be without the nvidia MXM drivers, which sort of makes this entire model useless if you forego the DGPU. I see the likelihood of any linux drivers coming from them as low, but never say never. And I know the linux community will do that on their own if the interest is there.
I contacted Asrock over this and an Asrock rep confirmed this morning that the unit supports Windows 10 only. I was on the fence about buying this device, but now I am going to pass, just because of my specific OS needs. But I want to put this out for anybody who is the same.
I don't blame Asrock for doing this in the slightest. It's silly probably for them to worry about even Windows 8.1, but I was still holding out hope I could get around using Windows 10 on this.
Anyway, I'm going to assume that given the board's specific design for power delivery to the mxm, looking for the appropriate driver elsewhere would be a bad idea. BUT I'm not well-read on that issue, and if anybody wants to advise on that, please do so Cheers!
I was looking around and found the Asrock drivers and noticed only windows 10 on their website.
Now, most people will be fine with this, especially considering you'll want Win 10 to take advantage of the Direct X support on this. But I wanted to point this out in the case that you are in the 1% of people who want this machine but do NOT want to use Windows 10 exclusively. Most other essential drivers install fine on older windows, but you will be without the nvidia MXM drivers, which sort of makes this entire model useless if you forego the DGPU. I see the likelihood of any linux drivers coming from them as low, but never say never. And I know the linux community will do that on their own if the interest is there.
I contacted Asrock over this and an Asrock rep confirmed this morning that the unit supports Windows 10 only. I was on the fence about buying this device, but now I am going to pass, just because of my specific OS needs. But I want to put this out for anybody who is the same.
I don't blame Asrock for doing this in the slightest. It's silly probably for them to worry about even Windows 8.1, but I was still holding out hope I could get around using Windows 10 on this.
Anyway, I'm going to assume that given the board's specific design for power delivery to the mxm, looking for the appropriate driver elsewhere would be a bad idea. BUT I'm not well-read on that issue, and if anybody wants to advise on that, please do so Cheers!