Windows Experience Index in 7989 Can you explain why Windows Experience Index in 7989 Decreases ? take a look: 7955 7989 But in fact, 7989 run faster than 7955
My Thinkpad Edge's graphics score went from 4.3 in 7601, down to 3.9 in 7989. It's probably just because it doesn't have win 8 optimized drivers.
You can see the paypal tile saying that it is called "Omnimo" if you google that you find that it is a skin for rainmeter.
I don't know about that, seems a bit slower booting up and restarting. About the same during regular use, but the killer is every time I hit the HDD with reads or writes it lags for a few milliseconds. If I start multitasking quickly like opening it bunch of tabs, while using flash etc it becomes noticeable. I also think those are driver issues since it didn't seem to lag as much in older win 8 builds. This laptop has an i5-520M, 4GB of RAM and a 7,200 RPM HDD, so it ain't that. Not that I am complaining, this is to be expected from non-optimized drivers and software. Hell ain't that what beta testing is all about?
That's why is better to run x86 than x64 if you have a choice, a lot more drivers and newer drivers in x86 than x64...
"I also think those are driver issues since it didn't seem to lag as much in older win 8 builds" do not use the installer, decompress the installer ( use "7-zip") and use driver update+browse my computer+let me pick from+have disk+browse and select your driver .inf file and update
Microsoft could have readjusted the way it rates performance too. Not sure what the highest number will be when Win 8 is released, but since that won't be until the end of next year, and seeing that there is the Ivy Bridge, LGA2011 Sandy-Bridges, AMD Bulldozer, even possibly 2nd gen AMD Bulldozer and the new AMD socket 2012 (nothing to do with the pin count, just a name meaning 2012 release, replaces G32...) Basically by then they need to factor in AVX (not factored in with Window 7, and only available post SP1), FMA4 (AMD Bulldozer), FMA3 (Ivy Bridge), XOP (AMD BD), etc. as well as the next gen GPU's, such as the HD7000 Radeons, being built on a completely new architecture allowing for easier OpenCL etc use, new Nvidia architecture, new gen SSD's, and the likelihood that we need SATA4 next year seeing SATA3 is almost maxed out on the fastest SSD's (only when in AHCI mode) etc, faster RAM... Out of 14? lol Wonder if they'll add new things on there like OpenCL/Directcompute performance etc?
Can you post your spec? my spec: Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3200 @ 2.00GHz Memory (RAM) 2,00 GB