Is an A4000T really much better than an A4000?

[Morley]

Well, the 4000T was the best Amiga money could buy :-) , and the reason i bought one instead of a regular desktop. But it is really a terrible design, you only have 5 5.1/4 external drive bays to put drives into, no internal(!?), and you must use some hard-to-get drive rails to mount any drives there as well. The onboard SCSI is not DMA and on my 4000T it refuses to work with HDD's...

Also the serial and parallell ports, audio/video&RGB ports and the SCSI/floppy ports are mounted on "modules" connected to the MB, with either flat cables or sitting directly on some pin-arrays. Really a troublesome design, as the case is very un-rigid when the cover is off and you risk bending everything out of their connectors :-(

All-in-all, I would say the desktop is a much better designed piece of hardware, but the 4000T is more rare...and the one you would want if you were to collect Amiga's :-D

[Morley]

/me hides from the critics....

Sorry, I thought the onboard SCSI wasn't DMA, it was just my wild guess as i didn't find any info on it anywhere...
Regarding the SCSI hdd problem I think it's related to my computer, and of course not other 4000T's.

As goes for the capacity to put in a lot of drives, it it bad...you only have 5 external bays to use as drive bays for internal and external drives, and you have to find drive-rails to mount them on(only 2 included as standard). Anybody who has seen an A4000T knows what I mean.

Anyway, the board is AT form-factor so you can throw it in any case case you like...the 4000T biggest drawback is IMHO the case.

But, nevertheless, I love my 4000T and am glad i got it :-)


-EDIT-

Oh, so I can mount 3.5" drives on the internal "drive-rail"..Uh-oh, my 4000T hasn't got it. One of the drawbacks of buying second(10th)hand equipment :pissed: