Well if you sold the A1200 and got an A4000 with a mediator 4000DI (desktop version) you can get some more performance. The A1200 will only let you use 8MB max of the voodoo 3 memory, all 12 is used in the A4000. If you have any PCMCIA card in the 1200 then you only get to use 4MB of its RAM.