Looking at the comments of this post about Geekbench, a benchmarking tool currently in beta (for both Windows and the Mac), it's apparent that, regardless of Apple's move to Intel chips, Mac and PC users will just never get along. I don't know why I thought the Intel switch would make a difference, but at least, I thought, we'll all be using the same chip so we can stop arguing about which machines are faster—there would be no more gigahertz arguments. But from those comments I would say I was living in a fantasy world.
I get into at least three Mac versus PC arguments at work every week. Most of them stem from really silly comments made by co-workers who are anti-Apple, to which I respond with (usually) legitimate arguments. My arguments are almost always met with sentiments like, "Oh, whatever, Apple sucks." It's hard to argue with someone when that's the entire basis of their opinion. A week or two ago, a co-worker of mine was complaining about having to download iTunes to get Quicktime for Windows. I told him he could click an alternate link to get just QT, but he said that was too much work. Then someone else started talking about how it was "absolutely ridiculous" that Apple would "bundle iTunes with Quicktime" and make you "install both to get one." I asked him why this bothered him so much and yet, on his Windows machine, he has Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, et cetera, most of which cannot be uninstalled at all, all bundled, no choice, installed by default, and he has no problem there. He said he could uninstall Internet Explorer if he really wanted to. I dared him to try.
The truth is, there's just no bridging certain gaps. Regardless of the chips, the hardware, the software—there will still be a divide. I'm trying to be better about not responding to bait at work. Trying to avoid getting into arguments on the subject because, really, it's just not worth it. I love my computers. In reality, that's all that matters to me. If you want to use a PC, use a PC. Want to use a Mac? Great, that's fine too (and we'll have more to talk about). The kind of back-and-forth in that post is the very definition of a useless argument.