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    I just heard about the Windows Experience Index, which basically is a test that gets run in windows (as a cron job, or also from the start menu), and in about 30 seconds to a minute spits out a "score" of combined processor, graphics, IO, etc performance of the machine. I.e. if Windows is running quick and responsive on a machine, the score will be higher, whereas if its running sluggishly the score will be lower.

    Neat idea, no? With all the talk of "bloat" around here, it would be neat to be able to quantify bloatedness...

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    To me everything that uses over 640kb of ram at once is bloat

    In the 90's you could get quite alot out of your ram and still get alot done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Johnsie View Post
    To me everything that uses over 640kb of ram at once is bloat
    I guess rendering a 3D movie is bloat to you then

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    or gaming...or having antivirus+endpoint protection running...
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    Quote Originally Posted by DrMelon View Post
    I guess rendering a 3D movie is bloat to you then
    Of course it is. Just go read the book and let your organic GPU display the graphics in your head for you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Johnsie View Post
    In the 90's you could get quite alot out of your ram and still get alot done.
    Yeh, one of the 286 machines at work took 29 minutes to print a one-page graph. I couldn't live with that (there are only so many lunch breaks in the day) so that's why my Dan 386DX PC had 8Mb RAM and a 2.5Mb caching hard disk controller card. And a whopping 210Mb hard disk.
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    Re: "Windows Experience Index"

    Quote Originally Posted by Sporkman View Post
    I just heard about the Windows Experience Index, which basically is a test that gets run in windows (as a cron job, or also from the start menu), and in about 30 seconds to a minute spits out a "score" of combined processor, graphics, IO, etc performance of the machine. I.e. if Windows is running quick and responsive on a machine, the score will be higher, whereas if its running sluggishly the score will be lower.

    Neat idea, no? With all the talk of "bloat" around here, it would be neat to be able to quantify bloatedness...
    At least in Vista, it's not a combined score, rather it just takes the score for the weakest major component. For instance, here's mine:



    The memory, hard drive and graphics all receive the highest possible score, but because the CPU is a bottleneck on this system, the overall score is the same as the CPU's score.

    It's not really a very robust benchmarking system, and it basically just tells you what the average geek already knows about his or her machine.
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    Thanks for the screenshot. Cute how they insert ads there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sporkman View Post
    Thanks for the screenshot. Cute how they insert ads there.
    Well, "they" in this case is the OEM. Can't pin that on Microsoft.

    It's just a link to Compaq's hardware sales, so you can be "certified" add-on/replacement parts.
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    yes, I would consider rendering a 3d movie to be bloat. However, one mans bloat is another mans treasure

    You shouldn't need 30 megabytes to view a website though

    ps. don't talk to me about gaming... Pacman is still very popular today and so is Pong. Many people get as much satisfaction playing those games as they would playing some OTT super-graphical yet another 1st person shooter
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