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NeoOffice Performance Comparison
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Last updated: 25 November 2012
This page attempts to provide a balanced, but by no means complete, comparison of NeoOffice's performance with 3 comparable office suites - Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and Microsoft Office - to help you make a more informed decision when evaluating office software. Some other software developers have similar comparison pages. Those that we are aware of are linked below.
NeoOffice 3.3 vs. Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 vs. LibreOffice 3.6.3 vs. Microsoft Office 2008
| Performance Test | NeoOffice 3.3 | Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 | LibreOffice 3.6.3 | Microsoft Office 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General: | ||||
| Price | Payment of US$10 or more within the last year | $0.00 | $0.00 | $149.95 Home & Student Edition |
| Launch Time: | ||||
| Launch time to active cursor in Writer/Word document by double-clicking on application in Finder after reboot (cold start) | ||||
| 10 seconds | 20 seconds | 16 seconds | 11 seconds | |
| Launch time to active cursor in Writer/Word document by double-clicking on application in Finder after quitting application (warm start) | ||||
| 5 seconds | 8 seconds | 7 seconds | 5 seconds | |
| Word Processor: | ||||
| ... with a 500,000 character document (approximately 125 pages long) | ||||
| Open in Print Layout view, by dragging from Finder to closed application (warm start) | ||||
| 5 seconds | 7 seconds | 6 seconds | 4 seconds | |
| Open in Print Layout view, by dragging from Finder to open application | ||||
| 1 second | 1 second | 5 seconds | 1 second | |
| Save | ||||
| 1 second | 2 seconds | 1 second | 1 second | |
| Page Preview | ||||
| 2 seconds | 4 seconds | 4 seconds | 1 second | |
| Print ... | ||||
| 12 seconds | 17 seconds | 17 seconds | 6 seconds | |
| Export/Save as PDF | ||||
| 8 seconds | 10 seconds | 10 seconds | 8 seconds | |
| Presentation: | ||||
| ... with a 12 slide document | ||||
| Open by dragging from Finder to closed application (warm start) | ||||
| 6 seconds | 7 seconds | 6 seconds | 5 seconds | |
| Time to complete slide show with No Transition set, using space bar to advance slide | ||||
| 4 seconds | 7 seconds | 6 seconds | 3 seconds | |
| Time to complete slide show with transition set to Fade Smoothly, using space bar to advance slide | ||||
| 28 seconds | 30 seconds | 30 seconds | 8 seconds | |
| Time to complete slide show with transition set to Wedge, using space bar to advance slide | ||||
| 28 seconds | 30 seconds | 30 seconds | 9 seconds | |
| Print ... | ||||
| 3 seconds | 117 seconds | 119 seconds | 2 seconds | |
| Export/Save as PDF | ||||
| 4 seconds | 3 seconds | 3 seconds | 2 seconds | |
Notes:
- Tests were run as a newly created user with default setup
- NeoOffice version is 3.3 Patch 3
- Apache OpenOffice version is 3.4.1
- LibreOffice version is 3.6.3
- Microsoft Office 2008 version is 12.3.5
- No other applications were running
- Machine details: Mac OS X 10.6.8 running on a 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro with 2 GB of RAM
- Spotlight privacy was enabled for all volumes
- Automatic spell checking, grammar, capitalization and hyphenation were disabled
- Sample 500,000 character word processing document was created from a Lorem Ipsum generation site and saved as an .odt file
- The document above was saved in Microsoft 97/2000/XP .doc format for MS Office testing
- Sample presentation document was obtained from this post in the Trinity forums and saved as a .ppt file
- All print tests were output to the Mac OS X Preview application
Other Comparisons
Additional performance (and feature) comparisons between selected word processors is available at Word-Alternativen: Der Test (apfelwiki.de; compares Mellel 2.5, NeoOffice 2.2.3, Nisus Writer Pro 1.1, and Apple's Pages 3.0.2).
