One of the biggest differences in Office 2011 is the noticeably faster launching speed. There are two types of launching for us to test: launch after Mac restart, and successive launch. Because Mac OS X optimizes repeated launches with caching, these two types of launches perform significantly different. Either way, however, 2011 is noticeably faster as you can see in Figure 2.
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One of the biggest differences in Office 2011 is the noticeably faster launching speed. There are two types of launching for us to test: launch after Mac restart, and successive launch. Because Mac OS X optimizes repeated launches with caching, these two types of launches perform significantly different.
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We won’t keep you in suspense. In general, Office 2011 is significantly and noticeably faster than Office 2008 and 2004 in a variety of areas. There were some surprises, however, on areas that felt faster, but weren’t when clocked with a stopwatch, providing an interesting lesson in user speed perception vs. reality.
Before we get into details, let’s take a look at an overview of the results. With about 1000 tests, we find it most representative to see it visually with our trademark colored worksheets.
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The N22 is a compact integrated stereo power amplifier and headphone amp that you can connect to your iPod, computer, and speakers or headphones. Two audio inputs are standard so you can plug in your computer, iPod or stereo directly.
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The US$49 Digimarc for Images 4 plug-in (http://www.digimarc.com) for Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements (Windows only) embeds your own unique copyright information invisibly, then their Web crawling service constantly looks for watermarked images on web sites, and reports the results back to the owner.
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