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Save on PCs by using Win7's Experience Index

Woody Leonhard

By Woody Leonhard

The Windows Experience Index PC benchmarking suite, which was introduced in Vista, is modified somewhat in Windows 7 — and not always for the better.

If you know which numbers to ignore, however, the Experience Index can save you a heap of money on a Windows 7 machine.

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