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NeoOffice Performance Comparison
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Last updated: 4 February 2010
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 Office, 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 3.0.2 vs. OpenOffice.org 3.1 vs. Microsoft Office 2008
| Performance Test | NeoOffice 3.0.2 | OpenOffice.org 3.1 | MS Office 2008 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General: | |||||
| Price | $0.00, donation requested | $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) | |||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 25 seconds | 37 seconds | 23 seconds | ||
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 32 seconds | 38 seconds | 32 seconds | ||
| Launch time to active cursor in Writer/Word document by double-clicking on application in Finder after quitting application (warm start) | |||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 8 seconds | 9 seconds | 9 seconds | ||
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 14 seconds | 13 seconds | 8 seconds | ||
| Word Processor: | |||||
| ... with a 500,000 character document (approximately 130 pages long) | |||||
| Open in Print Layout view, by dragging from Finder to closed application (warm start) | |||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 8 seconds | 6 seconds | 4 seconds | ||
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 16 seconds | crashed | 9 seconds | ||
| Open in Print Layout view, by dragging from Finder to open application | |||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 1 second | 6 seconds | 1 second | ||
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 4 seconds | 3 seconds | 1 second | ||
| Save | |||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 3 seconds | 2 seconds | 2 seconds | ||
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 6 seconds | 3 seconds | 3 seconds | ||
| Page Preview | |||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 3 seconds | 3 seconds | 2 seconds | ||
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 8 seconds | 7 seconds | 1 second | ||
| Print ... | |||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 24 seconds | 24 seconds | 20 seconds | ||
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 53 seconds | 70 seconds | 34 seconds | ||
| Export/Save as PDF | |||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 9 seconds | 18 seconds | 19 seconds | ||
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 21 seconds | crashed | 31 seconds | ||
| Presentation: | |||||
| ... with a 11 slide document | |||||
| Open by dragging from Finder to closed application (warm start) | |||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 10 seconds | 9 seconds | 5 seconds | ||
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 20 seconds | crashed | 15 seconds | ||
| Time to complete slide show with No Transition set, using space bar to advance slide | |||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 14 seconds | 35 seconds | 4 seconds | ||
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 29 seconds | 42 seconds | 34 seconds | ||
| Time to complete slide show with transition set to Fade Smoothly, using space bar to advance slide | |||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 29 seconds | 60 seconds | 9 seconds | ||
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 59 seconds | 66 seconds | 11 seconds | ||
| Time to complete slide show with transition set to Wedge, using space bar to advance slide | |||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 28 seconds | 60 seconds | 10 seconds | ||
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 54 seconds | 69 seconds | 12 seconds | ||
| Print ... | |||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 13 seconds | 14 seconds | 5 seconds | ||
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 20 seconds | 21 seconds | 7 seconds | ||
| Export/Save as PDF | |||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 9 seconds | 12 seconds | 2 seconds | ||
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 13 seconds | crashed | 2 seconds | ||
Notes:
- Tests were run as a newly created user with default setup
- NeoOffice versions is 3.0.2 Patch 0
- OpenOffice.org version is 3.1 on the Intel platform
- OpenOffice.org version is 3.1 Release Candidate 2 on the PPC platform
- Microsoft Word 2008 version is 12.1.7, PowerPoint is 12.1.7
- No other applications were running
- Machine 1 - Intel details: Mac OS X 10.4.11, MacBook Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM
- Machine 2 - PPC details: Mac OS X 10.4.11, PowerBook 1.67 GHz PPC G4, 1 GB RAM
- Automatic spell checking, grammar and hyphenation were disabled
- Sample 500,000 character 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 or the Microsoft Office 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]).
