FA: Amiga A4000T - 060 Cyberstorm PPC 604e

[Iggy]

Yes. This is pretty much the 'holy grail' for people who want to obtain a classic Amiga. I would love one as would most Amiga fans. Good luck to the bidders on this. I thought about bidding but that's a hard sell to the wife haha. Besides, I'd just use to to play games and I can do that on my existing machine.

If I had to spend the cash on this or an X5000 I would choose this any day of the week. It will hold its value should I ever want to sell it down the road. It is the flagship of a classic computer range.  The X5000 is just a PPC-based hobby board in a clone PC case.

I just could rationalize it myself, not with a 180 MHz PPC processor.
And I can play all the games just as well in an emulator.

So I'd buy the X5000, hobby board or not, it can run things I can't run on the 4000 or via an emulator.

[Iggy]

Very nice system!  I wish I could convince myself that I should get it.  For those that don't know, and I feel like a dick even mentioning this, but the new Phase 5 PPC boards go for 1500 themselves.  I inquired about them a while back and my reaction was "I could almost buy one of the NG systems for that..." I really would Like to have a PPC Amiga, but am actually more interested in the 68k machines anyhow.

$1500? Ouch.
Have they produced anything yet?

[Iggy]

Where are you getting this pricing info from?

Good question, since I haven't seen a photo of a fully populated board yet, let alone something for sale.

[Iggy]

I emailed them through their facebook page back in February.



So, it may be worth it to some, 60mhz 060, and 400Mhz PPC, so not nothing to scoff at as far as old hardware goes.  I just can't justify the price just so I can run OS4... Not to mention since it's about the same price as a full on machine that won't have the issue with being latched onto decaying hardware... But I guess for those that are really needing/wanting one, there you have it.

The 60MHz '060 is no great shakes, but the improvement in the PPC cpu is noteworthy. More than double the speed of the system being discussed here.
It would go a long way toward making legacy system tolerable for NG OS use.