🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello everyone,
    I am in need of assistance.  I am an IBM user and have had little 
experience with Macs.  I am on several local BBS's where a lot, I mean
A LOT of Mac and IBM bashing goes on.  Now, of course I stick up for IBM, and
it's also amusing to watch the other users get irritated and say stupid things
(the average user age on the particular board to which I am referring is 14), 
but I am as ignorant about Macs as they are about IBM.  The keep referring to
these "speed tests" and "benchmarks", but no one can seem to remember who
performed them or under what conditions, etc.  These users have also requested
that I upload specs on Intel microprocessors (which is what I have been doing
for months now) so that they can compare them to Motorolla processors.  What
I really would like is an UNBIASED comparison of Mac and IBM, as well as Intel
and Motorolla.  In addition, I would like to be referred to a GOOD technical 
reference manual for Macs in my everlasting pursuit of knowlege.  I'm not asking
for anyone to tell me how good the Macs are or how crappy the IBM's are because
I like my IBM and I'm not going to buy a Mac, I merely wish to become more
educated on the subject so that I don't sound as ignorant as the afore mentioned
Mac using "IBM experts".  For example, I have a very good book called "Upgrading
and Repairing PC's" published by QUE (I like QUE books very much and have
several others).  If any of you are familiar with this book, I am looking for 
the same type of thing with regard to a Mac.  Thanks for any help you can
provide.