Hello,

The M18x r1 is not officially supported by Dell to run Windows 8, so we are not going to have drivers for that system on our support site.

The notebook is not even one year old, and its already outdated.......  

But it will probably work fine with Windows 8. Windows 8 contains many drivers natively. My XPS 8300 is unsupported and runs Windows 8 perfectly without any installation of any additional drivers. Its best to install Windows 8 and then have a look in the device manager as I mention here.

Clam down pal, win8 got released only a few days ago give them time to support it + as mentioned above win8 has way more native drivers than win7. When installed 8 it already supported, ethernet, usb3, hd 7.1 surround etc no need for extra drivers.

Dude..... Im calm with the help of ebay.  Osd does not work and metro apps dont recognize the vga.  For me this is not a toy,  i run esxi and wanted to turn into stable hyperv host.  Call of duty i can play on anything.  I use this for work.

I share your frustration.  I also brought an R1 last November and use it primarily for .NET development and have several VMs.  How can they not support R1?  hhmmmmm, I also just received an email requesting if I want to extend my warranty and was going to do so, I think I will be holding off.  

As a long term and loyal customer of Dell, i.e. never brought any other laptop apart from Dell, I think I might have to revisit my loyalty.

WOW!!!! Amazing how you guys will just close the door on loyal customers. This was not a $400 investment and the least you guys could do is spend the time to develop the appropriate drivers. NEVER AGAIN ALIENWARE!!!!

Do you want a laugh.  I asked if I extended if my warranty will it still be valid if I upgrade to Windows 8, the response was yes.  When I questioned the issue about the drivers I never got a response back!!!!

For the OSD issue you can try uninstalling the Alienware ones, or try the Windows 7 ones.

What do you mean with the metro apps not recognizing the VGA? have you tried using the latest drivers from the manufacturer's site?

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