jeng jeng jeng.. 800m notebook drivers get listed already (now only 820m)

What can you do with the Alienware Respawn without the premium purchase?
only create bootable usb/dvd?

wow.. thanks man i just realized that we do have those. sorry i didn't pay attention to the contents in the box. i just took the laptop, power adapter, and cable out and left the rest untouched.

maybe with respawn it can restore all oem branding stuff. sorry i am not that sure.

noobie here.. what's 800m?

AlienRespawn can be used to restore ur laptop to factory state, which means a full backup of your system based on factory settings. Very handy for those people who doesn't want to start from scratch.

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There's a recovery disc included together with the laptop other than manuals and the above mentioned.

But to all Windows 8 Alienware users, u only can use AlienRespawn for another drive as long as it has a bigger or equivalent sized capacity. Lower capacity drives will fail during the process. For example, if ur laptop comes with 750GB HDD and u want to use AlienRespawn for a 120GB/256GB/512GB SSD, the respawn process will fail. The software will inform u that ur drive must be 750GB or more in order to proceed. The only way to move over to lower sized SSD is to use cloning software which breaks ur AlienRespawn.

For Windows 7 users, it might still be possible. I was unable to try this because my system arrived with Windows 8. According to forums, it works but need someone to test it out.

The other alternative is to call Dell to send u a copy of the AlienRespawn image based on ur requirements but this might incur some costs. Not sure about the price.

AlienRespawn can be used to restore ur laptop to factory state, which means a full backup of your system based on factory settings. Very handy for those people who doesn't want to start from scratch.
There's a recovery disc included together with the laptop other than manuals and the above mentioned.

But to all Windows 8 Alienware users, u only can use AlienRespawn for another drive as long as it has a bigger or equivalent sized capacity. Lower capacity drives will fail during the process. For example, if ur laptop comes with 750GB HDD and u want to use AlienRespawn for a 120GB/256GB/512GB SSD, the respawn process will fail. The software will inform u that ur drive must be 750GB or more in order to proceed. The only way to move over to lower sized SSD is to use cloning software which breaks ur AlienRespawn.

For Windows 7 users, it might still be possible. I was unable to try this because my system arrived with Windows 8. According to forums, it works but need someone to test it out.

The other alternative is to call Dell to send u a copy of the AlienRespawn image based on ur requirements but this might incur some costs. Not sure about the price.

Thanks for the tip.
Seems like Alien Respawn is more or less doing a ghosting.
Haven't been using Windows for 5 years Let's see how Win8 fairs compared to OSX.
By the way, any of you guys updated to 8.1 ?

i'm on w8.1 (single language and pro). i am used to it since 8. no issues with clean install, and the games that i play (bf4 mainly).

Guess I can safely update to 8.1
BF4 is a very costly game

btw, do you guys use any specific widget app to monitor the temperature of your Alien?

upgrade means in-store upgrade? that one i never tried before. i did a clean install then call MS to reactivate my copy (key quota exceeded limit).

i bought the premium then baru realize that dlc do not have new campaigns :/ (but damn the scenes are so nice).

i use hwinfo64 only. i don't use widgets haha!

I was told before the purchase that I can upgrade to 8.1.
Isn't the 8.1 something similar like the service pack thingy? or you actually have to pay for it?

I guess I'll stick with hwinfo64 then.
Thanks.

no you don't need to pay for it; it's free for existing legit w8 users (like you and me). to me yeah it's supposed to be a service pack; but there are apparent but minor differences between the two. (for instance, no more wei score checking)

you can use this trick to download and keep a copy of iso file for later use

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-576083...indows-8.1-iso/

edit: note - this is an upgrade-only iso; meaning you need to install w8 then upgrade with the media.

i can do clean install because i got mine from a friend who has access to msdn (or technet i forgot). alternatively, grab the untouched version online.

can we just call dell support center to come and format for us ?

well to be frank, yes it is a pain doing it the upgrade way. maybe there is a trick to do this less painfully :/ (i didn't research about this yet)

Let's see.. It's time to re-live Windows

wo.. good luck with ssd, it should be a job under half an hour, with all drivers installed.

haven't purchase any SSD yet.. 

hey guys, its been a while i visiting this thread. how are you guys doing with your mothership?

there is possibility that next year, i will get a mothership, so that i can join, contribute and organize events.