@takemehome...
No fetish.
Just that there is no way forward without going multicore. World knows it, every Amiga flavor OS team knows it.
For most desktop needs 2Ghz single core seems enough, while there are a lot of productivity SW that benefit from more cores as well as other advancements.
btw. PA6T was planned to have 8 cores, not 16 as I said before.
@zylesea
"No, it wasn't. It's performing poor. ..."
MPC8641D system would have been cheaper, yes.
But slower (it's slower than those powerBook G4's) in almost every aspect and with less modern technology for developers to tinker with.
IIRC, for G5 macs they managed to get up to 2x speeds in rendering with single 1.6Ghz G5 when compared to 2xG4 systems (Bryce test), so there must be some optimizations ahead before we have seen the maximum out from PA6T.