NP530U4C AO1UK and Windows 10

First off - Thanks for all the knowledgeable contributors here, I've consulted information to get me out of trouble here many, many times.

To my question - does any one have any experience of this particular notebook and Windows 10?? Or can thy make an educated presumption about the risk?

I have read through quite a bit of the long Samsung Windows thread but most specifics are around more powerful laptops with dedicated graphics etc and issues that may not apply to this model.

My model is a [Series 5] laptop / ultabook with I5 3317U, 6GB and Intel HD4000 graphics and 24gb iSSD, Win 7 SP1. I have just installed a Samsung evo 850 SSD in place of the HDD and am leaving the iSSD unused as the motherbroad was replaced once, for what I believe to the an iSSD failure.

Samsung's UK site for this model has a very generic Windows 10 guide at: http://ift.tt/2ayvpas which does not provide much confidence. Although I also notice samsung software update lists a Windows 10 update as a software update before installing the OS, so maybe it would be carefree.....

But contrasting, searching the internet there seems to be a samsung US published guide which presents compatability tables, and processors platforms without support or partial support and 3rd Gen ivy bridge is listed as limited or no support. See http://ift.tt/2amku0s

So, whilst I'd like to update I'm starting to think it might be in the high risk category, would this be an accurate interpretation of things?

Windows 10 compatibility checker says you need to un-install easy settings and that is about it but I wonder about all the other drivers (except express cache - which I'll leave un-installed). Excuse the possibly stupid and obvious question but will Windows 7 drivers work in Windows 10 if I download and install them after the 10 install?

Many thanks.

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NP530U4C AO1UK and Windows 10