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What is Your Experience Index?

Posted on 06 March 2007 by


I guess you could read a lot into that question but as I talk about here on my little blog, after my desktop pc hardware upgrade my Windows Vista Experience Index went from 4.8 to 5.5. This of course is a totally arbitrary and arguably meaningless number. However I thought it might be fun to see what those of you running Vista have. My Fujitsu T4215 gives me a 3.0 rating.

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  • jonathan_jekir

    Under Vista RC1 (don’t have a newer version)

    IBM ThinkPad 640 640 MB RAM, 20 GB HD, Intel 8552GM integrated graphics

    I got a 2.0 or so, mainly for Gaming Graphics

  • JDTagish

    I’m at at 4.5 with an HP DV9000 series laptop with a Core 2 Duo @ 1.66mhz with 2G RAM & nVidia GeForce Go 7600 graphics and Home Premium.

    The Processor & Graphics actually got 4.7′s, but the RAM and HDD got the 4.5′s – so base score is 4.5.

  • ctmagnus

    3.3. Mine’s also for graphics.

    CPU 4.9, RAM 4.5, HDD 4.3, graphics 3.7, gaming graphics 3.3.

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