NeoOffice Performance Comparison

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This page attempts to provide a balanced, but by no means complete, comparison of NeoOffice's performance with two comparable office suites, StarOffice/OpenOffice.org and Microsoft, to help you make a more informed decision when evaluating office software. Some other software developers have similar comparison pages; those we are aware of are linked below.

NeoOffice 2.2.4 Patch 4 vs. OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta 2 vs. Microsoft Office 2004

Performance Test	NeoOffice 2.2.4 Patch 4	OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta 2	MS Office 2004
General:
Price	$0.00, donation requested	$0.00	$149.95 Home & Student Edition
Launch Time:
Launch time to active cursor in Writer document by double-clicking on application in Finder after reboot (cold start)
Mac OS X 10.4.11, MacBook Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM	26 seconds	27 seconds	27 seconds
Mac OS X 10.4.11, PowerBook 1.67 GHz PPC G4, 1 GB RAM	36 seconds	47 seconds	10 seconds
Launch time to active cursor in Writer document by double-clicking on application in Finder after quitting application (warm start)
Mac OS X 10.4.11, MacBook Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM	9 seconds	8 seconds	7 seconds
Mac OS X 10.4.11, PowerBook 1.67 GHz PPC G4, 1 GB RAM	16 seconds	21 seconds	5 seconds
Word Processor:
... with a 500,000 character document (about 130 pages long)
Open in Print Layout view, by dragging from Finder to closed application (warm start)
Mac OS X 10.4.11, MacBook Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM	8 seconds	8 seconds	5 seconds
Mac OS X 10.4.11, PowerBook 1.67 GHz PPC G4, 1 GB RAM	12 seconds	21 seconds	4 seconds
Open in Print Layout view, by dragging from Finder to open application
Mac OS X 10.4.11, MacBook Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM	1 second	1 second	1 second
Mac OS X 10.4.11, PowerBook 1.67 GHz PPC G4, 1 GB RAM	4 seconds	12 seconds	1 second
Save
Mac OS X 10.4.11, MacBook Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM	3 seconds	3 seconds	3 seconds
Mac OS X 10.4.11, PowerBook 1.67 GHz PPC G4, 1 GB RAM	6 seconds	4 seconds	2 seconds
Page Preview
Mac OS X 10.4.11, MacBook Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM	4 seconds	3 seconds	2 seconds
Mac OS X 10.4.11, PowerBook 1.67 GHz PPC G4, 1 GB RAM	5 seconds	6 seconds	1 seconds
Print ...
Mac OS X 10.4.11, MacBook Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM	24 seconds	20 seconds	64 seconds
Mac OS X 10.4.11, PowerBook 1.67 GHz PPC G4, 1 GB RAM	46 seconds	34 seconds	45 seconds
Export as PDF
Mac OS X 10.4.11, MacBook Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM	13 seconds	15 seconds	n/a
Mac OS X 10.4.11, PowerBook 1.67 GHz PPC G4, 1 GB RAM	25 seconds	27 seconds	n/a
Presentation:
... with a 11 slide document
Open by dragging from Finder to closed application (warm start)
Mac OS X 10.4.11, MacBook Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM	8 seconds	6 seconds	9 seconds
Mac OS X 10.4.11, PowerBook 1.67 GHz PPC G4, 1 GB RAM	13 seconds	18 seconds	4 seconds
Time to complete slide show with No Transition set, using space bar to advance slide
Mac OS X 10.4.11, MacBook Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM	18 seconds	32 seconds	11 seconds
Mac OS X 10.4.11, PowerBook 1.67 GHz PPC G4, 1 GB RAM	22 seconds	40 seconds	9 seconds
Time to complete slide show with transition set to Fade Smoothly, using space bar to advance slide
Mac OS X 10.4.11, MacBook Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM	35 seconds	60 seconds	23 seconds
Mac OS X 10.4.11, PowerBook 1.67 GHz PPC G4, 1 GB RAM	48 seconds	62 seconds	18 seconds
Time to complete slide show with transition set to Wedge, using space bar to advance slide
Mac OS X 10.4.11, MacBook Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM	35 seconds	63 seconds	20 seconds
Mac OS X 10.4.11, PowerBook 1.67 GHz PPC G4, 1 GB RAM	40 seconds	62 seconds	17 seconds
Print ...
Mac OS X 10.4.11, MacBook Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM	13 seconds	18 seconds	13 seconds
Mac OS X 10.4.11, PowerBook 1.67 GHz PPC G4, 1 GB RAM	20 seconds	23 seconds	16 seconds
Export as PDF
Mac OS X 10.4.11, MacBook Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM	9 seconds	9 seconds	n/a
Mac OS X 10.4.11, PowerBook 1.67 GHz PPC G4, 1 GB RAM	15 seconds	15 seconds	n/a

Notes:

• Tests were run as a newly created user with default setup
• NeoOffice version is 2.2.4 with Patch 4
• OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta 2 was used which is the same product as StarOffice 9 Beta
• No other applications were running
• Spell checking and automatic hyphenation were disabled
• Microsoft Office pricing is for Office 2008 which has replaced Microsoft Office 2004
• Sample 500,000 word processing document was obtained from ApfelWiki Word-Alternativen Der Test and modified to open in Print Layout view
• Sample presentation document was obtained from NeoOffice Bugzilla and saved as a .odp file
• Both documents above were saved in Microsoft 97/2000/XP formats (.doc and .ppt) for MS Office testing
• Print was tested using Preview. On NeoOffice the print icon on the toolbar was used, on OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office the menu item File::Print was used due to differences in dialogs in NeoOffice and lack of a Print Preview option when using the OpenOffice.org toolbar

Other Comparisons

Additional performance (and feature) comparisons between selected office suites and word processors are available at Mellel: Competitive Comparison (redlers.com; compares Mellel 2.0 with Microsoft Office 2004, OpenOffice.org 2.0.x, and Nisus Writer Express 2.7, but not NeoOffice) and Word-Alternativen: Der Test (apfelwiki.de; compares AbiWord 2.4.5, Mellel 2.2.7, NeoOffice 2.2.1, Nisus Writer Pro 1.0, and Apple's Pages 3.0 [de]).