I'd much rather have a 486 that I can run anything on, than a Core i7 that I can only run what Intel says I can.

"I spent all night running over hookers!"

The question is, how good is the performance for, say, intensive numerical computations? Is the gigaflop per watt convenient?

I know of at least one case locally where a woman was put into a coma by exposure to chemical fragrance. The idiot that did it to her had been warned more than a few times not to do it. One day he comes in wreaking of the stuff like he bathed in it. A few minutes later she was in a coma. She did eventually come out of it, but the brain damage was significant. A person would have to be a monster to not think that's fucked up. Though admittedly most people with sensitivities aren't that sensitive. But still.