my A4000D is here!

[tone007]

It is a nice machine.  But...... you'll want to change the cpu card.  And AGA lack of speed will annoy you and you'll see those empty Zorro slots that just HAVE  to have a graphics card.  But then you'll miss AGA games, and you hear about these things called "Indivision".  And wouldn't it be great to have a burner...oh and a fast hard drive, but that needs a faster interface, like say a fastATA 4000....but yep its a nice machine...

If 16MB of RAM is enough (and it is for most things,) there's no reason to change the CPU card.  Paying a bunch of money for a faster but still slow processor doesn't make much sense unless something you're doing requires that type of speed.  Graphics card is definitely a nice upgrade (more bang for the buck than a CPU card upgrade, I'd say,) but why would that make anyone miss AGA games?  AGA still works with an RTG card installed, especially easy if your RTG board has a passthrough otherwise a simple switchbox or second monitor is all you need.  I've never had the desire for a burner in an Amiga, why mess with that when it's generally the target machine these days?  Then there are the ever present complaints about slow IDE on the 1200/4000.  Fast enough, I say!

[tone007]

I've also had CSMKII's (and CSPPCs) and sure, they were nice.  They don't make the machine all that much more capable than the 3640, though, unless you're running '060 demos and games.  I'm not a day to day user by any means, so I'm more than happy to go with the 3640 ($100 card) and sacrifice the snappiness the $400+ cards afforded.