@Rednova
Do not get the A4000. Its a waste of time.
I had an A4000 and an A1200 and I gave away my A4000 and kept my A1200.
Just do what I did:
1. Put A1200 in a Tower with a Mediator.
2. Expand away to your heart's content.
3. Hey now that your A1200 is in a tower u suddenly have room for an A4000! Or a u can slave a lowly core i5 bgcpc to ur mighty A1200 over ethernet as I have done.
A1200T + Mediator + Ethernet + Gfx card + Accellerator + Extra Ram + IDEfix + Giant Hard Drive FTW!
Cost aside, you did that totally the wrong way around IMNSHO. An A4000 + Mediator (+PCI Gfx Card, PCI NIC, PCI sound card etc) + CSPPC or any decent 060 board *destroys* any existing A1200 combination. Faster buses, proper DMA and a proper 32-bit address range for expansion space.
The only thing the A1200 can trump it on is the amount of RAM you can fit to an accelerator board: 256MB versus 128MB on the CSPPC.
