"In the second test, we loaded CSA Research's OfficeBench test tool. Someone actually using these workstations would never have a completely clean environment, so we ran a test series with everything installed and Norton AntiVirus running. (We also ran OfficeBench on the clean systems.)
Next, we loaded up another CSA Research tool, Clarity Studio. With Clarity Studio, we simulated multiple, concurrent workloads running in parallel -- the kind of complex, data-intensive multitasking that's becoming commonplace in emerging workstation markets (see "How we put the workstations under pressure"). "