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NeoOffice Performance Comparison
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Last updated: 8 September 2008
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 2.2.5 vs. OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candidate 1 vs. Microsoft Office 2004 vs. Microsoft Office 2008
| Performance Test | NeoOffice 2.2.5 | OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candidate 1 | MS Office 2004 | MS Office 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General: | ||||
| Price | $0.00, donation requested | $0.00 | No longer available | $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) | ||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 26 seconds | 27 seconds | 27 seconds | 23 seconds |
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 33 seconds | 47 seconds | 10 seconds | 32 seconds |
| Launch time to active cursor in Writer document by double-clicking on application in Finder after quitting application (warm start) | ||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 9 seconds | 8 seconds | 7 seconds | 9 seconds |
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 16 seconds | 21 seconds | 5 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 | 8 seconds | 5 seconds | 4 seconds |
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 12 seconds | Crashed | 4 seconds | 9 seconds |
| Open in Print Layout view, by dragging from Finder to open application | ||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 1 second | 1 second | 1 second | 1 second |
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 4 seconds | 2 seconds | 1 second | 1 second |
| Save | ||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 3 seconds | 3 seconds | 3 seconds | 2 seconds |
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 6 seconds | 4 seconds | 2 seconds | 3 seconds |
| Page Preview | ||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 4 seconds | 3 seconds | 2 seconds | 2 seconds |
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 5 seconds | 6 seconds | 1 second | 1 second |
| Print ... | ||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 24 seconds | 29 seconds | 64 seconds | 20 seconds |
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 46 seconds | 52 seconds | 45 seconds | 34 seconds |
| Export/Save as PDF | ||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 13 seconds | 15 seconds | Not available | 19 seconds |
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 25 seconds | 27 seconds | Not available | 31 seconds |
| Presentation: | ||||
| ... with a 11 slide document | ||||
| Open by dragging from Finder to closed application (warm start) | ||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 8 seconds | 6 seconds | 9 seconds | 5 seconds |
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 13 seconds | Crashed | 4 seconds | 15 seconds |
| Time to complete slide show with No Transition set, using space bar to advance slide | ||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 11 seconds | 24 seconds | 11 seconds | 4 seconds |
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 22 seconds | 34 seconds | 9 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) | 35 seconds | 48 seconds | 23 seconds | 9 seconds |
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 48 seconds | 57 seconds | 18 seconds | 11 seconds |
| Time to complete slide show with transition set to Wedge, using space bar to advance slide | ||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 35 seconds | 48 seconds | 20 seconds | 10 seconds |
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 45 seconds | 56 seconds | 17 seconds | 12 seconds |
| Print ... | ||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 13 seconds | 18 seconds | 13 seconds | 5 seconds |
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 20 seconds | 23 seconds | 16 seconds | 7 seconds |
| Export/Save as PDF | ||||
| Machine 1 - Intel (see Notes) | 9 seconds | 9 seconds | Not available | 2 seconds |
| Machine 2 - PPC (see Notes) | 15 seconds | 15 seconds | Not available | 2 seconds |
Notes:
- Tests were run as a newly created user with default setup
- NeoOffice version is 2.2.4 with Patch 5
- OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candiate 1 was used
- Microsoft Word 2004 version is 11.3.8, PowerPoint is 11.3.5
- Microsoft Word 2008 version is 12.1.2, PowerPoint is 12.1.2
- 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
- Spell checking and automatic 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]).
