Amiga 4000D mobo hard to find?

[FastRobPlus]

For what it's worth, I remember reading an interview with some CBM guy when the AA chips were introduced.  When asked why AA could not be retrofitted to older Amigas, he said that the socketed nature of older Amigas meant that they could not reliably operate at the speed of the new chips.

[TjLaZer]

I have almost all the Amigas and the Flagship Amiga would have to be the 4000.  It was the glory computer every Amigan dreamed about.  My first Amiga was the 1000.  Then I moved onto the 500 (as it was cheaper to be able to get more memory!), then I got the 2000, then I got a 4000!  I later obtained a 3000, 1200, 600 and finally the CD32.  I actually own all of these right now.  I have four 4000 computers in mint condition and they run great.  The 4000 is a true 32-bit computer, unlike the 2000.  Plus it looks sexier than the 2000.

[amigamad]

The Amiga 2000 Series earned "Flagship Status" because it was designed and built in Germany and is the highest quality, best built of all the Amiga models

And if its built and is as reliable as currant german cars from volkswagon, bmw and the worst one mercedes then its i would avoid the oversized and underpowered a500 wanabe.

German cars have the worst reliabilty proven in a survey recently they were rated worse than rover which are british made .

The thing with the a3000 and 4000 is there worth something, a2000,s are either thrown away or given away .

[X-ray]

@ Shades:

I originally had to have a CIA replaced back in the late 90s because some useless sack of pus connected his A1200 to my A4000T with un ungrounded parnet cable. Wasn't easy finding someone in SA who could do the job.
By the way I am as suited to that kind of delicate soldering as Pavarotti is to pole vaulting.

So the job was done, but it was really messy and I have been worried about how long its going to last and 'what if' it happens again. So with recent mouse input problems I sent the mobo to Amiga Centre in France.

They are very helpful and I found their work to be good (from what I can see). They have socketed my CIAs. I got the mobo back yesterday and so far all is well. I got two spare CIAs 'in case'

I recommend the guys at Amiga Centre. Jean-Jacques doesn't speak very good English (but its better than my French) however he is quick to respond by email and provides a very good service. I suggest if anyone has niggling little problems with SMD stuff then they should get it sorted out now because in another 5 years time, who knows whether you can still get things fixed...