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I thought that as soon as Windows began working on Intel Macs we would get side-by-side tests.
I thought this was the moment when if you were a Mac user, "the superiority of Macintoshes would be forever known," or, if you were a Windows user, "the superiority of Windows machines would be forever established."
I thought we would, by now, finally have The Answer to The Question.
As Mac and Windows sites have yelled at me since WWDC 2005, this is a historic opprotunity to once and for all pit a Mac and Windows machine against each other in a test of speed, floating points, and mHz. I've read countless articles where I was told that OS X and Windows have never run on the same box, and, now that they do, we'll finally see which one is better.
Yet these tests are so-far non-existent, and OS X and Windows have run on the same box for a week now. Why are these tests so elusive?
Here's one reason: The OS X evangelicals and the Windows evangelicals are scared. "Oh, No!," they say as they purchase iMacs and dual-boot to Windows. "Dear Lord!," they say, "Now The Question will be answered!" "Oh, No! The Question we have been arguing about since MS-DOS will now be answered! There will be no purpose to my life!" I can just imagine the Windows evangelicals hiding under their beds from the supreme truth of The Answer to The Question.
But the Mac-people and PC-people shouldn't worry: These tests won't decide anything. Mac sites will publish tests that err on the side of Mac. PC sites; tests that have Windows winning. In short, there will be no one true answer.
Besides, after the dust clears and Scoble and TUAW stop arguing about it, it will continue to be a philosophical argument. The Mac will still have those who hate it's GUI. Windows will still be plagued by security problems. People will forget about the tests. Life will move on. The sun will not explode, and neither Apple or Microsoft will go bankrupt.
But, still, I want to see these tests. I'm just as eager as you are to see The Answer to The Question.
