The StrongARM upgrade was phenomenal, but clearly pushing the machine to the limit. Acorn seemed to have a dangerous disinterest in floating point performance though.

On some level I have grown to believe that Acorn were deliberately not producing competitive desktop machines so as to keep ARM off the Intel radar. It has become clear from some leaked documents from Acorn (and discussion on here) that they appreciated the game was up, except for the niche enthusiasts, long before the Risc PC was announced.

Indeed, it was incredibly powerful for the price. The games that came out for it didn't really show what it could do, most were either straight Amiga ports or even more amateurish than Amiga games tended to me.