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Yes, I don't advise anyone to go the preview route if they're on a laptop--unless they are the adventurous sort... It's a mixed bag due to the custom nature of the hardware in laptops that often departs from the industry standards promulgated by Intel (usually) in interesting ways--such hardware requires custom driver software to run--and if the laptop OEM isn't supplying Win10 drivers then you could be completely out of luck--because you won't find them in Windows unless the OEM supplies them to Microsoft.
Some laptops have little or no trouble at all--some are a disaster waiting to happen the minute they no longer can utilize their custom driver software. Hardware vendors like Microsoft (with Surface), Apple & Dell contract with the companies that build the hardware to their specifications for drivers, etc. OS X, for instance, supports far less hardware ROOB than Windows, etc. But even with Windows, running the Insider builds on Surface hasn't really been a smooth experience for Surface owners, as I've been reading for months, now.
I'm prejudiced--only time I've ever used a laptop is when a job has demanded it and furnished it to me--and even then I hate them... In my home office right beside my framed "The first thing we do let's kill all the lawyers" quote from Shakespeare, is another framed quote: "The only good laptop is a dead laptop"....! From that you can kind of guess my career-long prejudices...
Well, that's the problem with having a single thread for the entire subject of the new build. There is a perfectly good Insider Preview forum, but people just pile onto this thread forever, on whatever topic, for hundreds of comments. Impossible to really keep up with everything.
When I read your OP, it seemed to be saying that you were supporting many machines over a wide geographical area, the not-unreasonable implication being some sort of production scenario. I gently pointed out that maybe this wasn't the best scenario in which to be deploying development software. Many pages of comments later things were clarified, but I don't think that, based on your OP, my original comment was unfounded or jumping to conclusions.