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Mac Office 2008 somewhat faster

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Mac Office

This corresponds to what I’ve seen, you’d expect that Office 2008 being a native Intel application would be much faster than Office 2004 which is PowerPC and runs in emulation on Intel. Well, the results are a little confusing. It is faster, but not much in many things:

Excel Open Word Scroll Entourage Download
2004 0:25sec 1:04 sec. 1:29 sec
2008 0:23 sec 0:51 sec. 0:49 sec

So don’t upgrade to Office 2008 for speed. Also there is a new SP1 which is supposed to fix some of the many stability issues on Office 2008. Good luck. I think I’m staying on 2004 for now.

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