Whats your Windows Experience Index

[scaz182]

Hi all,

I'm interested in the 'Windows Experience Index' on your Macs in either Vista or Windows7?

I'd especially be interested in the index results for a Macbook Pro 13" 2.53GHz as I have just ordered one!?

Cheers.

[Stridder44]

Bear in mind the WEI is very general method of evaluating one's machine, and it not an accurate indicator of a machine's true power. It can't replace a proper benchmarking app (even then, real benchmarking apps don't compare to real-world scores).

My point is take whatever score it gives you with a grain of salt.

[VenusianSky]

Bear in mind the WEI is very general method of evaluating one's machine, and it not an accurate indicator of a machine's true power. It can't replace a proper benchmarking app (even then, real benchmarking apps don't compare to real-world scores).

My point is take whatever score it gives you with a grain of salt.

The only thing I found that uses this are games. The purpose is to give an average user (non-hardcore gamer) some idea of how well it should run. Games that support WEI have a minumum and recommended rating. You can view it by opening the games folder, selecting a game and on the right pane select the performance tab. I think of it as the minimum/recommended requirements that is printed on the box except without the technical jargon. I imagine some games probably have the WEI printed on the box as well.

[scaz182]

Yeah, I'm aware it's ultimately a dumbing down of system requirements for your average consumer but the breakdown of results do give a basic indication of your computers performance, I was really just interested as to how a Macbook would handle Windows Aero in comparison to my current laptop.

[MaxBuck]

Yeah, I'm aware it's ultimately a dumbing down of system requirements for your average consumer but the breakdown of results do give a basic indication of your computers performance, I was really just interested as to how a Macbook would handle Windows Aero in comparison to my current laptop.My MBP 15" has a Windows Experience of 5.5 running in Boot Camp. I have the dual graphics processors - 9400 and 9600GT. Aero will not function running in Parallels.

[bcburrows]

My MBP 15" has a Windows Experience of 5.5 running in Boot Camp. I have the dual graphics processors - 9400 and 9600GT. Aero will not function running in Parallels.

My 2.66 mbp only has a score of 5.2 - it says graphics card 9600 scores 5.1 and hence brings it down. u installed newer nvidia drivers?

[peskaa]

My Late 2008 MBP scores a 5.3, lowered by the 9600GT 512MB. The next lowest is the CPU at 5.9 and HDD at the same (7,200rpm).

[mpuck972]

My 27" iMac scores a 6.1 because the hard drive information exchange is 6.1 other wise it would be a 6.6

[Stridder44]

Yeah, I'm aware it's ultimately a dumbing down of system requirements for your average consumer but the breakdown of results do give a basic indication of your computers performance, I was really just interested as to how a Macbook would handle Windows Aero in comparison to my current laptop.

My MBP is about 6.1 all around (except in the HDD department, which brings everything down to a lousy 5.1). This is with 4GB RAM and a 8600M GT 512MB.

[Terminal.app]

My 2.66 mbp only has a score of 5.2 - it says graphics card 9600 scores 5.1 and hence brings it down. u installed newer nvidia drivers?

My Late 2008 MBP scores a 5.3, lowered by the 9600GT 512MB. The next lowest is the CPU at 5.9 and HDD at the same (7,200rpm).

Install the latest NVIDIA drivers (http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook_winvista_win7_x64_186.81_whql.html) and graphics scores will improve noticeably. I did this myself (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=8712634#post8712634) and my graphics subscore went from 5.3 to 6.4.

[bcburrows]

With the new graphics driver and a seagate 7200 hdd my score has 'jumped' to 5.9 - with the lowest component being the HDD

Certainly not getting an SSD to boost my score but break my bank