Vista: 3dMark06 Score only 2 points less than XP score?!?

http://service.futuremark.com/orb/resultanalyzer.jsp?projectType=14&XLID=0&UID=8367140
My score is 1743 under Vista, and during my initial review of the nc8430 I got a 1745. I'm just curious if others are experiencing the same results or not.

http://service.futuremark.com/orb/resultanalyzer.jsp?projectType=13&XLID=0&UID=8367270
Also, my PCMark05 score has jumped from 4652 in XP to 4694 under Vista! And that's with all my programs running in the background. Wondering what a virgin installation with no other background processes would score...

 

Thats is kinda strange i noticed around a 200 drop in points (3DMark06) in comparison to urs but a slight gain in vista for PCMark05...you sure you removed programs on startup/unnecessary programs running in the background when you were checking in xp?...(otherwise thats pretty good!)

 

3DMark06 doesn't take as much of a hit in points as 3DMark05 under Vista. PCMark05 actually increases in many cases as you found night.

Here's a review of an Asus Z84Jp - there are performance scores for both XP and Vista:
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3507&review=Asus+Z84Jp