I started off my review of the Sun Ultra 20M2 workstation (Sun Ultra 20M2 workstation - part 1) with a look at the history of workstations and what they used to mean in the market, and a brief overview of the hardware.

Before I go into more detail on how the workstation feels when you use it, I took a brief interlude to try the Geekbench performance measuring tool on the box - so far I've tried only native Solaris 10 and Windows XP. Both are the 64-bit versions of the respective operating system, updated with the latest patches and the latest driver disk (1.4) from Sun for the U20M2. For comparison, I also added in a 24" iMac (with the T7600, 2.33GHz CPU).