MacTech releases preview of Office 2008 for Mac benchmark results
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jan 13, 2008 at 10:29pm
MacTech has released a preview of the results of its extensive benchmark study of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. MacTech’s goal was to see how well Office applications performed compared to Office 2004 under both Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”) and 10.5 (“Leopard”), across a variety of configurations.
The large suite of over 2,500 tests was performed comparing the PowerBook G4, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Intel iMac, and Mac Pro. The purpose of the testing and the article are to answer the questions “Is the now Universal Microsoft Office 2008 faster than Office 2004?”
The full analysis and results will be published in the March 2008 issue of MacTech Magazine. The preview of the results is available immediately here.
For those that are making the transition from Microsoft Office VBA to AppleScript, MacTech published last year the VBA to AppleScript Transition Guide. The guide is available online, as a PDF, and in print while supplies last. Go here for more information.
The “Macsimum MWSF 2007 Coupon Book” is available for download. You can find it here and print it as a PDF. It has discounts, special offers and promotions in conjunction with the upcoming Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.
dave Says:
Damn, reduced features AND it runs slower on PPC? How can new templates do this?
Posted on January 14, 2008
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dave Says:
I bet it runs VBscripts lightning-fast!
Posted on January 14, 2008