> if we think that $1445 is cheap

What was said in this thread is that it's cheap compared to

- "some certain custom ppc board" (referring to Nemo, I reckon),
- the "below 2000 USD" mark (which could as well have meant 1999 USD),
- other Freescale Power Architecture RDBs, especially considering the specs.

Anything else would be a product of your imagination.

> is a "24-virtual-core" CPU really that relevant in a MorphOS context anyway?

Being Power Architecture, at least more relevant than your "quad core fourth generation Core i7 4770 (Haswell) CPU" :-) And yes, this thread was certainly started in the wrong subforum as MorphOS never ran on the MPC8610, so should belong into General Discussion instead. But as this thread began without a MorphOS context, I think it's legitimate to continue it this way. You may request this thread be locked, though :-P