{"id":821,"date":"2007-01-17T09:06:46","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T17:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/cda57353e00c40e2da430050186f4b93"},"modified":"2007-01-17T09:06:46","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T17:06:46","slug":"sun-ultra20-workstation-part-2-geekbench-results-interlude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"Sun Ultra20 workstation &#8211; part 2 (Geekbench results interlude)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started off my review of the Sun Ultra 20M2 workstation (<b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/4304\">Sun Ultra 20M2 workstation - part 1<\/a><\/b>) with a look at the history of workstations and what they used to mean in the market, and a brief overview of the hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Before I go into more detail on how the workstation feels when you use it, I took a brief interlude to try the <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/geekpatrol.ca\/geekbench\">Geekbench<\/a><\/b> 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).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=MUZGOf\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=MUZGOf\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/76727730\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started off my review of the Sun Ultra 20M2 workstation (<b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/4304\">Sun Ultra 20M2 workstation &#8211; part 1<\/a><\/b>) with a look at the history of workstations and what they used to mean in the market, and a brief overview of the hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Before I go into more detail on how the workstation feels when you use it, I took a brief interlude to try the <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/geekpatrol.ca\/geekbench\">Geekbench<\/a><\/b> performance measuring tool on the box &#8211; so far I&#8217;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&#8243; iMac (with the T7600, 2.33GHz CPU).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=MUZGOf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=MUZGOf\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/76727730\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}