Last month Microsoft announced the Office 2016 Mac Preview. Naturally, it includes new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook 2016.
The new Outlook sports a complete overhaul of the innards of the free email service built to keep you connected across your devices with organizational tools and a suite of Microsoft apps and services. So how much faster is Outlook 2016 when compared to Outlook 2011?”
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The large suite of over 3000 tests was performed comparing the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, MacBook Pro Retina, iMac and Mac Pro. The purpose of the testing and the article are to answer the questions about a variety of different kinds of performance for the different virtualization solutions available, as well as the differences between Windows 7 and 8 in virtual machines, graphics, gaming, and more.
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One of the most frequent questions we’ve been getting recently is “Should I upgrade to Parallels Desktop 8 or VMware Fusion 5?” Even though these new versions shipped several weeks back, we generally like to wait a bit as the updates for virtualization software that follow a major release often make a difference.
We decided to put the new versions to the test on both a MacBook Pro as well as a MacBook Air (the SSD vs. hard drive make a difference). As with all of our benchmarks, this comparison is only about speed, and not about features.
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By Neil Ticktin, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher
In 2005, Apple announced the switch of the Mac platform from PowerPC to Intel processors (the first Intel-based models were available in early 2006). This introduced some interesting opportunities for the Mac, including the ability to run operating systems other than Mac OS X on a Mac.
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How does VMware Fusion 3.1 and Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac compare?
For the past several weeks, MacTech has been working on its latest benchmarks for virtualization. Rather than look at the ‘version-dot-oh’ release, we typically wait for versions to settle down a bit so that we can give our readers results that are relevant for a longer period.
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