It seems that the motherboard manufacturers are holding out when it comes to incorporating much-needed I/O features. Consider the following:

- USB 3.1 Gen2 Type A and C
- Thunderbolt 3
- M.2 Gen 3 x4
- U.2

Unless you are willing to shell out top dollars for the top-of-the line Z170 series boards by Gigabyte or Asus, you can't get those features. It seems that they think that only gamers need these features, and Z170 chipset is all about overclocking.

Intel 200 series boards will start appearing in CES 2017. Hopefully lower-priced / non-OC boards would have these features and new system builders will pair them with a kaby lake cpu anyway. What's the alternative?

In a bizarre turn of events, old USB 3.0 has been renamed USB 3.1 gen 1, and the newfangled USB C can be plain old USB 3.0, 3.1 or Thunderbolt. So now you have cables that look the same, but perform very differently.

Anybody remembers John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory?

If any of you are looking for laptops for serious color accurate work then you might be interested in this article:

http://www.markzware.com/blogs/top-5-laptops-for-displaying-color-gamut/2008/10/14/

As someone said before, it's a niche market. Color accurate work is usually done in a S-IPS / S-PVA panel based display which has been professionally calibrated using a hardware colormeter. If money is no concern, check it the top of the line products by Eizo or the HP Dreamcolor series. At the bottom end (but still quite decent) is the HP LP2475w. However, you'll have to add a hardware colormeter to your budget.

I've seen a lot of posts lately claiming that ATI's superiority is "subjective at best" and nvidia still offers the "Best performance at a certain price level". Now you have it straight from the horse's mouth. What do you say to this?