If you can find a good A3000 you would be a fool to not get it over an A4000. You mention you dont care about AGA. The A3000 comes with SCSI built in. You can find loads of fast SCSI drives from CD-RW to Hard disks for next to nothing on ebay. The flicker fixer alone is worth getting it over an A4000. Do you have a monitor capable of displaying Amiga modes? If not you MUST get one or spend another $120 on a flicker fixer/scan doubler for the A4000. The IDE in the A4000 is crap. Its not buffered and you need special software to make it work with a CD-ROM AFAIK. You can still get a mediator for the A3000 and get just about all the same upgrades a 4000 can use for the same price. Look below for my A3000 specs.