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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 to active cursor in Writer document by double-clicking on application in Finder after reboot (cold start) | 26 seconds | 27 seconds | 27 seconds |
| Launch time to active cursor in Writer document by double-clicking on application in Finder after quitting application (warm start) | 9 seconds | 8 seconds | 7 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) | 8 seconds | 8 seconds | 5 seconds |
| Open in Print Layout view, by dragging from Finder to open application (warm start) | 1 second | 1 second | 1 second |
| Save | 3 seconds | 3 seconds | 3 seconds |
| Page Preview | 4 seconds | 3 seconds | 2 seconds |
| Print ... | 24 seconds | 20 seconds | 64 seconds |
| Export as PDF | 13 seconds | 15 seconds | n/a |
| Presentation: | |||
| ... with a 11 slide document | |||
| Open by dragging from Finder to closed application (warm start) | 8 seconds | 6 seconds | 9 seconds |
| Time to complete slide show with No Transition set, using space bar to advance slide | 18 seconds | 32 seconds | 11 seconds |
| Time to complete slide show with transition set to Fade Smoothly, using space bar to advance slide | 35 seconds | 60 seconds | 23 seconds |
| Time to complete slide show with transition set to Wedge, using space bar to advance slide | 35 seconds | 63 seconds | 20 seconds |
| Print ... | 13 seconds | 18 seconds | 13 seconds |
| Export as PDF | 9 seconds | 9 seconds | n/a |
Notes:
- Tested under Mac OS 10.4.11 on an Mac Book Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo with 1 GB of RAM
- 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]).
