amiga 3000 vs amiga 4000

[Crumb]

Don't get an A3000 unless it's completely updated with the latest Ramsey/dmac/buster/kickstart. You'll have to invest a lot of money and you'll still have a system worse than an A4000.

The A3000's scsi is slow compared to any scsi included with an accelerator, and if you want to use the scsi of an accelerator you have to perform the int2 modification.

The flicker fixer isn't IMHO a good reason to buy a 3000. I had one and I sold it fast to buy an A4000 and it was a very good move.

You have to put cd-roms and other devices in external cases because you can't fit one in the standard desktop case. On the A4000 you can put 3 hds, a disk drive and a cd-writer... two next to the PSU and one under the disk drive... It's one of the best designed amiga cases.

My A4000T case isn't so nice, I can only put 5 drives including 3'5 and 5'1/4... it takes a lot of space for nothing...

If you want PCIs you can´t put the pci bridge inside the A3000 case and you have to towerize it... if you want PCIs with the original A4000 case you can fit a mediator4000D or a G-Rex 4000...

If you buy an A3000 you'll find that you can't fill all the simm sockets of your accelerator because it doesn't fit well... on Amigas 4000 you can fill all the banks without problems...

Go for the A4000...

[amigamad]

Out of the box, the A3000 is IMHO better. Built in flicker fixer, scsi, etc. And other nice things like socketed/upgradable/repairable chips, 030 fallback (not so needed anymore).

sure is my a4000 ls a cheaply made badly thought out machine scusi on my a3000 is much better than ide on the 4000 plus you can conect more devices than with ide.

[Acill]

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.

[justthatgood]

@paulgerman

Great, see what you have caused.  You thought you have asked a simple, innocent question, but you have unleashed the mighty battle of the Big Boxes.  I hope all the mud flinging has given you something to think about.


BTW A4000's rule  :-D