> $45.5 (that's 380/8 [...]).

Not quite. But nice joke :-)

> COuld there be a way to turn this around, and make that train enter the station back?
> See, perhaps, these chips are about to get veryu cheap soon. Oh, well, that depends if
> freescale really sells looots of them. Ouch... [...] it's listed at two hundred dollars...

"Interestingly, feanor revealed to have received a direct offer from Freescale for massively reduced MPC8610 pricing." (quoting myself)
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=6684&start=99

That project is still listed btw:
http://www.powerdeveloper.org/program/mpc8610
http://www.power2people.org/bounty_047.html (82% to go)

With MorphOS being available for G4 Mac mini I'm personally not too much interested in this train turning around because I'm not confident about the extent of real world performance advantage a 1.33 GHz MPC8610 or 1.25 GHz MPC8640 offers over the 1.5 GHz MPC7447A/B (+ Apple northbridge). It would be new hardware, though.