Well... I am quite unlike the community you mentioned. As much as I like Linux, I despise the PC architecture (the clunky x86 is remarkably elegant when compared to the rest of a common PC - I imagine there is even an ISA bus buried inside the chipset) my computers use. I would much rather have a MIPS or ARM or SPARC based notebook instead.

Unfortunately, those are not being made mainly because any pc-class computing device must be Windows-compatible.

There is hope. Canonical recently announced they have a complete Ubuntu stack compiled for ARM. Maybe someone can make a cheap non-x86 usable desktop or portable computer out of that.

As for Lisp machines, it would be very interesting to build one these days. Anyone wants to guess what a Lisp CPU would look like if it could have been done with, say, a 45nm process?