• My $295 screamer Windows 7 PC

    Posted on March 5, 2009 at 21:19 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    I hate to link to paid content, but in this case it’s my article in the latest issue of Windows Secrets Newsletter.

    I talk about the changes in the Windows Experience Index, between Vista and Windows 7. In particular, I believe there are significant reasons why the Windows 7 disk component of the WEI is all wet. As best I can tell, the Windows 7 WEI disk component is still out to lunch in build 7048, so I have big-time doubts that Microsoft will fix it before Windows 7 ships. [UPDATE: I may be wrong. It’s possible that Microsoft went back to the old metric, or something like it, in build 7048. I’m waiting for further confirmation. Part of the problem lies in the fact that the only version of build 7048 currently available on the newsgroups is 64-bit, and it isn’t at all clear that WEIs run on 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 will be closely comparable.]

    Anyway, if you understand the genesis of the pieces of the Windows Experience Index, you can concentrate on spending hardware bucks where it’ll make a difference.

    Case in point: last week I bought an HP Pavilion for $225, slapped a $50 video card in it, added some memory – and the resulting machine rates very well indeed in the Windows 7 WEI benchmark.

    If you subscribe to Windows Secrets Newsletter, check out my article. If you don’t subscribe to Windows Secrets Newsletter, I guarantee that one article will pay for a whole year’s subscription. (And remember that YOU get to choose how much to pay.)

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