POLL: Are you Mac or PC?

For all the tablets, smart phones, touch screens and other technological marvels that infiltrate our daily lives, personal computing still comes down to one simple question:

Are you Mac … or PC?

Apple and Microsoft remain the industry titans, and each has upgrades to its main operating system on the brink of release. Windows 8 is slated for debut this fall, Microsoft recently announced. Meanwhile, Apple just this week launched Mountain Lion, the $20 upgrade to its own operating system.

But the question has moved beyond a person’s preferred navigation of technology and now lives firmly in our popular culture. A series of Apple-produced TVs ads, co-starring Justin Long, started it. Microsoft responded with its own spots, proudly proclaiming, “I’m a PC.” The Pantsless Knights turned the question into a rap song and video, while the Onion delights in skewering the Macintosh culture.

So what about you? Are you Mac … or PC? (Full disclosure: Patchers use Macs on the job.) Vote in our poll and tell us in the comments.