I think its a mistake to think of WEI as a serious benchmarking tool. WEI just measures the performance of key hardware (cpu, memory, graphics card...). It does not run continuosly and it cannot predict how your hardware will perform under varying work loads. So it is not a measure of system performance.
Apparently, each of the subscores are arrived at after detailed measurements. Problem is, the end user doesnt know what exactly these are and how they were performed. Given that, its difficult to take any score seriously. E.g. disk score can be based on random writes, sequential writes, free space, access time, file transfer rates etc. etc.
To make things worse, they managed to change the measurement matric from Vista so that people actually reported a lower score in win7 compared to the one in vista! Huh?? If the hardware hasnt changed, why should WEI?
Ultimately, WEI scores mean different things for different individuals depending on what they do on their computer. Running some excel sheets and IE on my cheapo machine with a terrible WEI, thats fine.
