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iMac i7 / Microsoft Experience rating using bootcamp
I'm currently using my top spec latest iMac 27inch mac with 4gb ram and 2gb graphics memory, quad core.
I have installed boot camp and windows 7 64bit. When I run the MS experience rating, the overall score is 5.9/7.9. The score seems to be hindered by what MS thinks is the slow transfer rate of my 1 TB hard drive.
I used to build computers as a hobby, but I dont for a moment believe my mac is using a rubbish HD. Any comments on this because I am slightly peeved by this score. Also the 64bit of this version of windows 7 took forever to install compared to my 32bit on a 10 year old PC. The installation didnt move from 0% for nearly 10 min. Is this normal?
I have installed boot camp and windows 7 64bit. When I run the MS experience rating, the overall score is 5.9/7.9. The score seems to be hindered by what MS thinks is the slow transfer rate of my 1 TB hard drive.
I used to build computers as a hobby, but I dont for a moment believe my mac is using a rubbish HD. Any comments on this because I am slightly peeved by this score. Also the 64bit of this version of windows 7 took forever to install compared to my 32bit on a 10 year old PC. The installation didnt move from 0% for nearly 10 min. Is this normal?
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BTW - what is the reason why a 64bit operating system would take longer to install than a 32bit? Content and size of files are the same right?
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Also those are expensive monitors. They are not 1920x1200, it's something like 2400x1600. You can't really find that under $1k
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I think the benchmarking results should at least give some indication of why the score has performed lower than expected.
Thx.