About MacTech Labs

For well over two decades, MacTech Magazine 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.

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 MacTech Magazine.

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:

• The most comprehensive Mac virtualization benchmarking article to date: Head-to-Head: Parallels Desktop for Mac vs. VMware Fusion which MacTech made available online, and in print.
  
  
• The most comprehensive Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac benchmarks to date: How does the new Office 2008 compared to Office 2004? which MacTech made available online, and in print.
  
  
• The most comprehensive Mac virtualization benchmarking article at the time: How do Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop, and VMware Fusion stack up? which MacTech made available online, and in print.
  
  
• One of the most widely distributed white papers was on Office 2004 Benchmarks on Intel-based Macs which MacTech made available online, as a PDF, and in print.
  
  
• Other very public examples include Laptop Hard Drive Speed: 4200, 5400, 7200 RPMs ... does it really matter? which examines what kinds of users should be using the faster drives, and the trade offs for both choices.
  
  
• And, Lasso & PHP: A Closer Look at Two OS X Scripting Languages focuses on the differences between these two scripting languages: one commercial and one open source.
  
  

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