I have a 2011 Mac Mini set up with Lion on one partition and Windows 7 on another. I installed Windows according the Apple's instruction. When I first set up windows, I did the Windows Experience Index test, which gave me: CPU 6.9 Mem 7.4 Desktop Graphics 6.4 Game 6.4 HD 7.1 I installed Parallels 7 to run the VM off the boot camp partition. The scores under Parallels are: CPU 6.9 Mem 7.6 Desktop Graphics 5.7 Game 5 (not surprising) HD 7.4 probably due to AHCI enabled? But when I go back to windows (i.e. boot up windows natively), the new scores are now CPU 6.9 Mem 7.4 Desktop Graphics 5.9 <-----?!?!? Game 6.3 HD 6.9 <-----?!?! Thinking that there might be some Parallels tools remnants left over, I also uninstalled them via the control panel, but the scores did not change. Further, Autodesk Inventor seems to run a bit slower than before, and according to their hardware diagnostics, my graphics seem to be running in a reduced mode. Rolling back and reinstalling the graphics drivers did not seem to help either. Anybody know what is going on here?
