When the 80486 first came out we were installing it in our clones in Fremont, CA and they came back full of bugs from our customers- It was a big loser at first. Intel used the clone mom and pop operations as beta testers for the 80486.
The dealer I worked for got the very first Acer 80486 computer in Kansas City. We were amazed at the blazing speed. To really test it out, we loaded up cshow (a graphic slide show program) and a bunch of porn photos, and set the autoexec.bat to start up the slideshow automatically... Then we went to lunch. When we got back the computer was gone. A salesman had boxed it up and taken it our to a major Fortune 500 client to demo it... He hooked it up in their conference room, turned it on, and went on his way to visit some people there and invite them to the demo. We heard that when he got back to the conference room, it was packed with "spectators" and he had trouble getting in...
Mark