Ok so I was one of those people to download windows 8 pro. the main issue is no driver support for the following.
M17X
INTEL CORE2 QUAD
MEMORY 4GB
NVIDIA GF260M SLI
: nvidia gf 260m
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0618&SUBSYS_02A11028&REV_A2
: base system device
PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_0843&SUBSYS_02A11028&REV_12
: coprocessor
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0AA3&SUBSYS_CB7910DE&REV_B1
: bluetooth
Before I would just mod the inf in win 7 but windows 8 will not install at all. I'm not going to buy a new alienware laptop to have new drivers and I don't have $3000.00 to spend.