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<H2 ALIGN=CENTER>About MacTech Labs</H2>
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For well over two decades, <i>MacTech Magazine</i> has set the standard for real-world analysis of the technical Macintosh community. Creating unbiased testing methodologies together with defining what matters most to users have been the cornerstone of MacTech Labs.
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MacTech Labs offers a credible and well-respected third-party evaluation of products. The expert practitioners at MacTech Labs draw upon their vast experience and expertise to craft test plans with the same care and attention to real-world relevance as found in the pages of <i>MacTech Magazine</i>.
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While there are a variety of examples of MacTech's real world analysis articles, these three articles give a good representation of the types of projects MacTech Labs typically does:
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<LI>The most comprehensive Mac virtualization benchmarking article to date: <a href="http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.25/25.04/VMBenchmarks/">Head-to-Head: Parallels Desktop for Mac vs. VMware Fusion</a> which MacTech made available online, and in print.<BR><BR>
<LI>The most comprehensive Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac benchmarks to date: <a href="http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.24/24.03/Office2008Benchmark/">How does the new Office 2008 compared to Office 2004?</a> which MacTech made available online, and in print.<BR><BR>
<LI>The most comprehensive Mac virtualization benchmarking article at the time: <a href="http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.24/24.02/VirtualizationBenchmark/">How do Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop, and VMware Fusion stack up?</a> which MacTech made available online, and in print.<BR><BR>
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widely distributed white papers was on <a href="http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.22/22.05/Office2004Benchmark/">Office 2004 Benchmarks on Intel-based Macs</a> which MacTech made available online, as a PDF, and in print.<BR><BR>
<LI>Other very public examples include <a href="http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.23/23.01/2301LaptopHardDriveSpeed/index.html"><i>Laptop Hard Drive Speed: 4200, 5400, 7200 RPMs ... does it really matter?</i></a> which examines what kinds of users should be using the faster drives, and the trade offs for both choices.<BR><BR>
<LI>And, <a href="http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.22/22.07/PHPvsLasso/index.html"><i>Lasso & PHP: A Closer Look at Two OS X Scripting Languages</i></a> focuses on the differences between these two scripting languages: one commercial and one open source.<BR><BR>
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