lowest windows experience score on here

without photoshop or registry tweaking (nice try ) what's the lowest windows experience score for vista or 7 we have on here. (I wonder if anyone actually has the magical 1.0 of "do not run")

Jason

Addenda: show proof with a screenshot such as the provided attachment (this is too high to even carry as a "low score", but you'll get the idea what I'm looking for).

 

I have 0.0 on everything. I didn't hack any registry or use any kind/form of photo editing tool.

 

My 5+ year old IBM NetVista X41 all-in-one gets a 1.0.

Specs: P4, 2.8Gz, 1.0Gb ram, 80Gb 5400 rpm drive, and the Magic Component is the ATi Rage 128 IGP.

A 1.0 isn't all that hard to achieve. Just get the slowest possible video card.

Remember that your 'score' is the lowest of the sub-scores. The main specs of the X41 are all 3.2 and higher. The ATi Rage 128 gets the 1.0.

By the way, this machine runs the Aero interface just fine.

 

Why in the world are you running without Aero on a 260M?

 

1!

But I guess like said earlier, all it takes is a slow graphics card to get a 1.

 

because of one of 3 options:

• he visually prefers that style (jup, there are people that got hurt that much leaving win2000 that they still want everything to look that way )
• he is one of those who thinks disabling aero gives a snappier experience, and never learned how it works and why this is wrong
• he physically measured that rendering the desktop on the cpu uses less power than rendering on the gpu (made for rendering, optimized for rendering), and thus, he has a longer batterylife.

point 2 never can be true, but people still believe it.
point 3 can only be true in very strange cases (geforce7 airplane-jet-noise-gpu paired with an atom, and similar configs), which is not the case in his case.

so i guess it's a mix of point 1 and 2.

 

for me, point 1 wins. It's not an issue of "getting hurt" though.. Pretty things turn me away from things, austere / simple looking things make me happy. No hurt / spite towards aero and glass and whatnot... just my mentality of liking minimalism more than pretty.

 

Click on "view and print detailed information" (on the rights side) and you'll get something like what I have posted in mine with full info and post that fully detailed chart... Otherwise you're winning, as you're the only one who's gotten the rules!!

 

knowing aero enhances the usability in my case big time (yep, preview windows rock. but only if you enlarge them to quarterscreen ), and it helps my system to perform better, as well as having finally no rendering artefacts like windows did since it's existance (white regions on windowparts that didn't got redrawn, tearings, etc), no thanks. aero is way to go.

i do understand minimalism. that's why i HAVE aero on. because it is "minimalism" to the system, a.k.a. the solution that fits best to it's environment.

and animated guis have much higher usability, as we're trained to react on animated stuff.

but, you can make your own choise i ran, for quite a while, minimalistic on xp. and obviously my home server is still full minimalistic haha (it has no option at all anyways ).

 

That's weird, I don't get "white blanks" on my laptop even with full "classic" on. If aero is "minimalism to the system", then what is super-classic? Also, I wasn't trained on "ooh, shiny!" I always found it detracting from the main goal of "getting what needs to be done, done". If you put flying windows in front of me, I get all confused as to what I want and go "screwit" whereas if everything's like it was in win2k / 98 / 95... I have an easier time dealing with it.

(and let's keep this on topic... i don't want it to be a debate, just some fun for those of us who bought the best buy special and wanna go "heehee, now where'd this low # come from??)

 

I have a 3.8

 

Do I really have to dig out my 256MB RAM, 10GB HDD, 600MHz P3 laptop? I can if y'all really want me to, but...

 

pics! like my screenshot!

if you can get vista to fit on that..... and it ups and runs..... you'll have a great "score"

 

Sure ... why not!

cheers ...

 

another semi-win!

(just need the details to verify qhn) (click on "print and view details" or whatever translates closest to that in german)

 

Will get it tomorrow. I returned the comp to the nephew after doing the review - Samsung R41 Malaido - you know where to look for it

And what am I supposed to look for? Just another screen shot?

cheers ...

 

Do these scores mean anything? lower the score the worse the performace of the laptop is?

 

It is just a Vista benchmark. Lower score does not always translate to bad performance of a notebook.

 

Depends. There is a large margin of error in the way the components are weighted, so while a computer with all 5.9s will clearly be better than a computer with all 0.9s, the WEI score is meaningless as a measure if one system has a 5.4 and the other a 5.3.

Of course, that's provided that the numbers you see are legitimate in the first place; as was intimated by one of the other posters, once the xml file is generated, you can simply edit that so that the WEI graphic displays whatever numbers you want it to. Unless you can demonstrate that the numbers haven't been monkeyed with in this way, they're utterly meaningless, so there is no point in getting into a WEI-fight online where everyone is throwing up what they claim to be their WEI scores - unless they're all willing to get together with their machines and let an objective third-party verify that the xml file hasn't been tampered with, it's a meaningless exercise.

 

Agreed. At some point the difference is obvious, however one of the reasons I set up as "lowest" was to give those who had a horrible system (ie: the "best buy special!" a chance to go "I'm better than you are!" for a second. Everyone goes on about how HIGH it is, but those who bought underpowered computers based on recommendations from the Geek Squad, or from someone from dell / hp trying to make a quick buck. It's analogous to a Porsche 911 GT3 RS and a citroen 2CV. Everyone loves the GT3 RS because it's brutally fast, scores top marks in everything performance, and is unrelenting... but people also like the 2CV because it's a little basic car with the quirkiest design you've ever seen... even if it'll BARELY keep up in USA interstate traffic (65 to 75 mph). I'm not going to take the super-legal stance, or expect registry pictures... but I don't just wanna see individual scores either. The reason I posted what I did in my OP was to make a middle ground. Show what I have for the score, and the components that add up to the score.

All I wanted was a fun "novelty" thread, and what I got instead was a debate / analysis of "WEI". If you can't tolerate the novelty factor, it's nothing against anyone as a person or a poster... but not every thread has to be serious. As Willy Wonka said "A little nonsense now and then... relished by the wisest men".

 

And you think I don't appreciate the humor in your post why? I may not be the brightest bulb in the lot, but I do grasp the humor in the thread.

That being said, once you birth something, you are no longer master of its destiny, goes for threads just as equally as for children.

 

sorry shyster1. The humor is there. Sometimes in writing things get taken out of context. Let's stop the fighting and return to our regularly scheduled it's a 1.0 moments! (seriously, I'd love to see how people get there without reg / photoshop hacks).

as for once i birth something, agreed, but all i ask is it stays on topic.

 

Editing the XML file with microsoft word is the way I use. That's how I got 0.0 in the WEI score.

 

@ganzonomy: No worries - I am the first to admit that what I type doesn't always convey what I mean, or what I want it to.

On topic: Is it possible to get a negative WEI score?

 

If you're doing the test legit, the lowest score you can get is a 1.0 either total, or on any individual component of the exam.

Source: Windows Vista Blog - An In-Depth Look at the WIndows Experience Index

 

Any new scores?

 

Well, I get a 5.0 (I think it was a smidge higher when I first got the computer, but I don't remember for sure) - I guess that makes me a total loser in the run for the lowest score, eh?

 

ayup.... same as me (i have a 5.6)

Jason

 

very simple: install your system while on battery. the WEI will not update while on battery. the result: all 1.0.

i had all 1.0 with my intel 160gb ssd, gave a short shock, till i noticed WEI never ran before.. (and setup goes much faster when on battery thanks to it. i've heard win7 WEI update is much faster, and I'm happy).

 

yup, i did that to my little sister's DV2000. It was funny until nothing would run beyond notepad and the basic games. Then I had to straighten it out and got lectured for allowing such a catastrophe to happen.

jason

 

Here's the WEI for my Dell E4300 (in sig)

 

NICE! so far the low is 2.4

anyone going lower with a legit shot?

Jason

 

I got a 2.4 did I not?

cheers ...

 

yup, edited post

 

ganzonomy how much did you get your laptop for

 

$2272, and then another $750 to newegg for an 8GB DDR3 SODIMM kit by corsair

 

5.0 but i had to disable aero to get that otherwise i think it was like 4.9

 

sublime, that doesnt make any sense, it disables aero while running the test...

heres mine.. win7 tho