> x1000 seems to perform as (realists) expected.

I disagree, as I think that I'm a realist and I can assure you that computationally the PA6T underperforms compared to what I expected from it. So could you please refer to some 2011 or older postings/statements from those you call "realists" where they correctly estimated the kind of performance that has manifested in 2012?
Maybe I should have become overally more suspicious when I found out about the relatively (compared to G3/G4/G5 that is) low DMIPS/MHz per core figure of the PA6T two years ago.

> it's the only Amigalike OS I can for example access my NAS GUI. ;-)

Why wouldn't that work with MorphOS or AROS running OWB?