Amiga 4000T just sold for $4000 on eBay

[Darrin]

Sold to some guy from Nigeria who will send him a cheque for $10,000, ask him to deduct the $4,000 and then send him the Amiga plus the other $6,000 to an address in Florida.  

[Darrin]

I know this will get me hate replies but why would anyone pay this?  You could put $4k towards an amazing PC and run WinUAE on it.  WinUAE is not real hardware but it will be much, much faster than that setup.  Plus, you can run current software along with your Amiga software.

I know the die-hards are all about true Amiga hardware but I just don't see how people justify that kind of money.  


To each his own, I guess, but that is either the ultimate collector or the sucker that PT keeps talking about.

-P

As someone who uses WinUAE, Minimigs and real Amigas, all I can say is that you can "feel" the difference between emulation and the genuine article.

It's like asking someone why they want to drive a 1960's Jaguar instead of a 2011 model, when the new model is just so much faster and comfortable.  

[Darrin]

I agree but at the same time... I think that I would actually prefer WinUAE than spending that amount of money on it.

I agree.  $1000 would buy a very nice PC setup with Amiga Forever and the remaining $3000 would pay for a flight to Rio de Janero where I would spend a week shagging my way around Copacabana.

I certainly wouldn't waste $4000 on an old computer!  

[Darrin]

I don't think a mint *Commodore* A4000T is even worth quite $4000 with all those upgrades?

Well the A4000Ts don't exactly fall out of trees and if you add up teh cost in time and effort of tracking down all of the additional parts in this machine, testing them, installing them, configuring them, etc then it is pretty easy to justify $4,000.  Trying to convince your wife that it is worth $4,000 is something entirely different.