WTF!!! Windows Experience Index is BS!!
the exp. index in W7 is giving me a 3.0 - just like the other people in this forum. funny thing is, i am running both OS' dual - and for anyone that wants to do that without deleting Vista - just install W7 on a new partition or add another HDD - it will make W7 the primary OS but you i just changed the boot loader settings in the bios so it asks me which drive to boot from. so back to my story - in Vista, my score was 5.9. Immediately after installing W7 with no changes - i get 7.9's and a 3.0 for my hard drive - data transfer rate??? and the 3.0 is what my final score ends up being.... BS!! I'm running an Intel i7 - OC'd - 6gb DDR3 - OC'd, 1333mhz tri channel - (2) Radeon 4850 x2 1gb - in CROSSFIRE (OC'd) - there's no way that this should be a 3. but, i guess that's why its a beta!!
Aside from that, I installed it last night and have been playing with it all day - its been crashing pretty regularly - mostly with jumping from program to program - locks up and i've actually gotten a blue screen a few times today. W7 hates google chrome. all in all though, i still like it - getting closer and closer to the holy grail...... OSX which i still say is the benchmark for how an operating system should look, act, and feel. W7 is going in the right direction though!!!