Ben, have them test against an athalon 64 x2... I doubt it's 17% faster... anyways, as far as the comment about the OS being faster, more reliable, etc.... come fix my mac for me then... the stupid thing crashes at least twice a day is slow as donkey balls and the multimedia on it sucks... granted, I'm just using iLife 05 but good lord, I would have figured it would be better... (I pulled some videos off of my camera onto my mac and onto my PC.. I used Vegas Video 6.0 on the PC... the PC was faster at rendering AND had alot better picture quality.)
I like my mac... it's fun to put a DVD in it when I"m stuck at work late so i have something to do while packages are rendering, but as far as EVER being better than my PC... not gonna happen.
P.S. Joe, please don't argue about MACs again... you make the pro-pc people look bad :-P